on film before the photographic movies became popular. In that 
early phase it was easy to speculate about “painting with light” 
and about introducing movement into the art of painting. Said 
Girard:

          I would not be surprised if, fifty years from now, 
     almost no one would pay attention to paintings whose 
     subjects remain still  in their always too-narrow frames.

The coming of TV inspired him anew:

          Once I saw suddenly, in a control room, the sensitive 
     eye of the camera presenting to me, one after another, 
     the faces, the landscapes, the expressions of a big 
     painting of mine in an order which I had never thought of. 
     I had the feeling of a composer listening to one of his