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CHAPTER XXXI 129 does not appear to be difficult of comprehension, but there are certain matters that are apt to confuse the student. He is told that a bust divides a scene into two different scenes but that an insert does not, nor does a cut-in leader. He cannot understand this. To make the matter clear it will be well to explain just what a scene is and why it should be numbered. 3. If the script of action is properly written, in scenes, the director can, without change, make these scenes the author has written, and get therefrom a complete play. As he makes each scene he gives it a number for identification. Later the separate pieces of film are assem- bled, by means of tliese numbers, in accordance with a list supplied by the director which shows where each numbered piece of film is to go. He can do this if the scenes are properly written. He cannot do so if he is told that "Then John comes home from college, renewing his friendship with Grace Smith and cutting out Harry Frye." That is not a scene but a statement of a fact that may require a number of scenes to show. That is no more writing a photoplay than telling an artist to paint a Venus would be painting a picture. You must tell each happening, hy itself, and express this in action. 4. Some beginners suppose that if they number their paragraphs they are writing scenes. They may offer, for example, something like this: 12. John comes out of his house and starts for Maud's. On the way there he meets Harrv. who tells him, about the accident to Jim. 13. When John gets to Maud's house he tells her about the accident to Jim, and the way she carries on makes him know that she cares more for Jim than she does for him, so he goes home again, sad at heart. That is not supposed to be amusing. It is an almost exact reproduc- tion of a story that has been offered in all sincerity as a photoplay and the author took the trouble to direct attention to the fact that it was "written in numbered scenes." ' 5. It would take all of twenty minutes to show this action as it stands, following John about with the camera, and very little of ii; would be of interest. This is where photoplay has such a great ad- vantage over the spoken drama. Only the most interesting incidents in a play are presented and these swiftly and graphically through the absence of dialogue. We take the important facts and isolate those into scenes. - ■ " 6. The first scene that shows the facts related above is that John comes from his house. The camera shows the front of a house. The door opens and John comes out. He walks out of the field of the camera. The camera stops, because there is nothing more to be pho- tographed there until the sad-hearted John returns. The scene is over. Presently the camera will start up again and John will walk into the picture and enter the house and shut the door. The camera stops again. There is no more action to record. The scene is done.