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CHAPTER XIII 39 ferest the manipulation of the aeroplane and applaud the acrobatic ability of the officer, but they will not regard the story as convincing. It is not plausible, and therefore not to be accepted. 8. Your story does not have to be true; indeed most true stories are to be avoided since you will be hampered by facts, and some of these facts may be so purely local that they will not be understood by persons not resident in your section of the country. It is better to offer a story that sounds true than one that is true, since the former will be accepted and the latter will not. When "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" was written there were no practicable cruis- ing submarines, no diving suits that enabled the wearer to be inde- pendent of a source of air supply; indeed, the whole story was al- most purely imaginative. But it was all possible and probable, and today practically all of the inventions have been realized; some of them, perhaps, through the suggestions contained in the book. Others of that time who sought to imitate Verne did not last because they were not plausible, because they were too wildly speculative. Verne was imaginative, but plausible. He was merely ahead of his time. He was accepted then. He is proven now. (l.XLVI:8) (3.XXII:7) (4.XXXIII :23 L:16 LIV:3) (8.VII :8 XXII :1). CHAPTER XIII STRUGGLE AND SUSPENSE ALREADY it has been shown that struggle and suspense are the two chief factors which make for interest in photoplay. With- out struggle there is nothing to arouse the interest. Without suspense there is nothing to hold it, and the greater the uncertainty as to the outcome the greater will be the sustained interest. 2. A mere record of events, even with some struggle, is history. History oftentimes is dull. It is only when history approaches plot that it gains interest. Josephus records the history of the Jewish people accurately, but not vitally. He makes it a valuable record of his race, but he does not engage interest. He gives no struggle and suspense to battles as vital as those of the Trojan war. The latter is both history and plot. It has become a classic, not so much through its importance as through its plot and through struggle and suspense. The story of the Siege of Troy is familiar to many who remember only disconnected incidents in Jewish history. 3. The wandering of the Israelites had an object. There was strug- gle and suspense, but the story is not told with a punch and with this omitted it is history alone; a most engrossing history, but too long continued to hold interest.