The linkages between shots in David Wark Griffith's films are 'matched' in the sense that no matter how strained these matches may be to a point that they seem to 'jump' (Intolerance) , to expose a gap, the continuity that underlies them is always reasserted. One of Griffith's most beautiful Biograph films is the 12 minute The Unchanging Sea made in 1910. The Adventures of Dollie, made in 1908, is among the earliest films Griffith made for Biograph. It tells the story of the kidnapping of the little girl Dollie and her subsequent reappearance. Essentially, The Adventures of Dollie presents a linear series of events. Time is successive based on logical connectives of consequent action. Griffith's invention of new cinematic means, primarily of montage, were stimulated by the desire to transpose the effects of the legitimate naturalist theatre (where language was central) to the cinema (where speech was absent).