Week 1

These firsts readings were a great introduction for me into the history of film. Reading the introduction to the book I thought it was interesting to know how influential the cinema scene was in Europe and how fast it traveled the world. The United States really took off with the idea of cinema. Gorky's thoughts on the cinema were interesting to read, his thoughts about how it seemed shadowy and ghost-like because of the lack of color and sound, I thought was ahead of his time. Interesting to think something so new could be critiqued with such futurism.

I also wondered what the development of cinema was like during that time where the Lumiere brothers left the movie scene. What companies continued to film silent films. I thought it was interesting to seem how fast film evolved from 1895-1920.