I want to point out, one of the strange things about the movie when it was new, at the beginning of the century, it seemed hilarious, it seems comic, simply because it was so perfect, a repeat of ordinary experience ordinary living… the movie in its early phase, was a parody of life, an imitation of life in a comic sense, because it just went along para hodos against or along beside the track of real life. The picture track, the movie picture track and the track of real life, were almost interchangeable and this creates a very comic effect. Realism, when new, is comic. Hilarious. Go back to the days of Sam Pepys and Daniel Defoe and you'll see what I mean. But with the coming of realism, prose realism, it was a new mythic form that created a very comic and satirical world. This was the great age of satire, realistic forms created a comic and satiric effect in the case of Pepys’ diary and in the case of Defoe, Robinson Crusoe sort of thing. One of the reviewers of Robinson Crusoe said “Mr. Defoe has represented the British Isles as totally depopulated”. This I found very valuable and comical sidelight, on the effect of realism on people for whom realism was new.