The making and showing of moving pictures seems to constitute what I have
taken the liberty of terming the "New Art."
Louis Reeves Harrison, Moving Picture World, 28 June 1913, P. 1336

The coming of the feature film brought changes in film form once again. The longer film created problems similar in some ways to, if not as extreme as, the narrative crisis of the nickelodeon days. Among the first multireel Vitagraph films, THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON and THE LIFE OF MOSES reflected the renewed narrative problems by reverting to the tableau style of pre-1908. When the stories to be told grew longer and more complex, clarity again became an issue. There was a renewed demand for lecturers to go out on the road with big special features such as DANTE'S INFERNO. There were also several revived attempts to provide mechanical...