In this short scene, the narrator and his assistant, the art assistant, are showing a silent film called "Tesperanza" to a small group of people in a small theater in an old district of Los Angeles. The narrator tells the audience that the film is about an actress named Viola who only appeared in silent films, and that she was cast out of a new production of "vaudeville," a form of entertainment popular in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The art assistant tells the narrator that the only way to see Viola is to go to the theater and see the old silent film.