Der Jongleur performed a hat juggling with such a tremendously relaxed body languages. We can see shadows! How clearly the shadow was presented to the cinema indicated the fundamental essence of cinema—the play of lightings. That's the invention of cinema, how people are excited at that moment to see something new, an absolutely new art form, a complexed, integrated, organic way to convey humankind.
We see those “freedom” and “excitement” across the early cinema, and to be honest, it's imposing and mind-blowing.
“Another early system for taking and projecting films was invented by the Germans Max and Emil Skladanowsky. Their Bioscop held two strips of film, each 31/2 inches wide, running side by side; frames of each were projected alternately. The Skladanowsky brothers showed a fifteen-minute program at a large vaudeville theater in Berlin on November 1, 1895—nearly two months before the famous Lumière screening at the Grand Café. The Bioscope system was too cumbersome, however, and the Skladanowsky eventually adopted the standard 35 mm, single-strip film used by more influential inventors. The brothers toured Europe through 1987, but they did not establish a stable production company.”
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