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14 TECHNIQUE OF THE PHOTOPLAY meet an English lord whom he is anxious for her to marry. Jane doesn't want to marry him because she loves Harry, so she is running away. All of this was in the letter. If it were just left to pictures alone we could, after a while, get the idea that Jane went to the country to get away from the noble suitor and that she loves Harry, but a fnillion feet of pic- tures could not tell us that her name was Jane or that his was Harry. It has been done in twenty seconds in that letter. When the picture was being put together in the factory, that library scene was all one straight piece of film, but at one point there was a mark that said "Insert letter No. i," so a girl cut the piece of film in two and cemented the letter in, or inserted it, so that anything belonging to a scene that is not in the photo- graph of the scene is called an insert. Now Jane calls her maid and gives her the letter. The maid leaves the room. If this had been made five years ago we would have had a picture of the maid leaving Jane's house, another in which she is seen walking along the street and a third where she comes to Harry's house, but it was found that it looks just as real if the maid leaves Jane's library and comes into Harry's den, though we need one of those exterior scenes to show that Harry and Jane do not live in the same house. We might see her leaving Jane's house or coming to Harry's; since she comes to Harry's house we have an idea that this is done because the front of Harry's house will be used again and Jane's home will not be shown from the outside. The fourth scene is the same as that first one, where we saw Harry sitting smoking. The letter is brought him and he starts to read it. There it comes on the screen again, but this time we barely have time to read the "Dear Harry" when it is gone again. We know what is in the letter, so just a flash about three feet long is used. Now the room vanishes and there comes on the screen some printed words that read: "The next day. Harry helps Jane to escape." We are going to see that he aids her escape, but we can't tell whether the escape is that same day or weeks afterward. There might, of course, have been a large calendar on the wall. In the first scenes it showed a large 10 and now Harry tears off a leaf and shows that it is the next day, but the passage of time is better told in print, and so a leader is used. Leader is also called sub-title and interscription, but leader is preferred. The picture runs on. Jane has gone to the country and Harry stays home.' Sitting in his room he thinks of her and as he does she seems to appear before him, at first just a shadowy outline,