Film

To kick this off I would have never imagined Thomas Edison to have anything to do with film. When I think of Edison I think of light bulbs, but thats beside the point. Mr. Edison produced the first large screen system called the vitascope. This new invention helped to show longer films at better quality. So let us give kudos to Mr. Edison for improving our film quality.

Another point that stuck out in the chapter was the creation of Nickelodeon. When I was a child I watched Nickelodeon everyday. It was the network to find legendary cartoons such as Rugrats, Rocko's Modern Life, CatDog and so much more. I find it very interesting that Nickelodeons in this time period were considered movie theaters for silent films. One of th e first people to create and direct a narrative film was Georges Melies. He was the begining of films actually telling a story instead of showing repetitive action (an example of this was horses galloping, no real plot).

In conclusion these two point were the most interesting details to know in film (well for me anyway). Learning about George makes me even more thankful of the films we have today because Lord knows I couldn't sit through any movie with no plot line.