Moving on to the appearance of detective genre on the screen, Maloney claims that filming in the early 1900s was rather basic, as of being almost dependent on images and visual elements. The actors had to rely on their costumes, facial expressions and the set to be able to get the message across to the audience. After 1903 and 1906 the film industry flourished, describes Maloney, and new techniques and equipment such as the mobile camera, the close-up and the editing of the films was introduced. Still exaggerated facial expressions, emotions and actions were required in order to create a melodramatic effect. He states that western and slapstick comedy dominated the arena of film, since the complicated logical deductions of the detectives were
