I actually preferred the Bordwell reading with the history of cinema the best. I think both articles point out that times have not changed much since the Victorian age as far as movies being the top entertainment and terror and imagination or astonishment being the favorite subject of those movies.
What I found the most interesting was the fact that Edison's assistant actually took film "out of the box" with his inventions and innovations....cutting the film to 35mm size and punching sprockets influenced the history of cinema to this day..pretty cool...except nobody remembers Dickson's name and everyone knows Edison... considering that Dickson made the best camera and projector for 70mm also keeps him in genius category especially since he no longer worked for Edison at that time...
Favorite new word!! Black Marias! named after the police paddy wagon -ha!
And smart people who figured out the "slack" in the film loop was the most important thing in becoming full-length movies...Bravo slackers Latham Group :)
Oh final favs! Annie Oakley one of first Edison films and Alice Guy, first female filmmaker . And wondering how that filmmaker in Gunning's article got his train shot straight on...without mishap...or did he?
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