Narrative Film

    It is a matter of course that there was no such enough technique to make movie in early 1900's because movie industry was just about to take a part of major industry.  It was even hard to call those works as movies if they are to be compared to the movies we enjoy today.    "Kinetoscope" by Thomas A. Edison was to teach workers how to handle machine.  Later on, they started putting some stories in movies such as "Life of an American Fireman" by Edwin S. Porter.  But stories still used to be short.  One thing I clearly can say is that those works are not surprising like movies today.  That is the point; plots of the movies, techniques (without cuts and zooms) could be what people possibly experience in normal lives.  It is an actuality. 

    Today's movies make everything we imagine possible.  As the web site mentioned, most of the plots in the movies are so unreal but making people think real.  Those heroes never die.  They sometimes fly to the sky, jump over the buildings and always kill enemies.  Of course we can't experience those in our lives but techniques and sound qualities in the movies make us to feel it is so real.  Film makers can express all of our imaginations in movies.

    By this comparison of movies between the past and the present, it seems obvious to me that movies in the past are more true and natural to life.  Most of the movies today are just fictitious.  They are just expressed by either film makers' or viewers' imaginations that are mostly impossible in real life.  So modern movies seem to implicate that the world and imaginations are enormous without any limit which means movies can make un-natural materials natural not like many movies in the past that are true and natural.