Gesture comprises, say, five percent a photograph
Yet, the gesture can contribute fifty percent to the photograph
D. W. Griffith regretted the loss of "the wind in the trees" when filmmakers shifted from filming in the "plein air" to studios:
[He] missed a certain beauty he thought had disappeared from film, from the way people saw life -- "the beauty of the moving wind in the trees, the little movement in a beautiful blowing on the blossoms in the trees.
That they have forgotten entirely. . . We have lost beauty.
On that note, Griffith fell silent
On that note, if one were directing the scene, one would begin a slow pullback