The thing that I find most interesting about the invention of cinema is that it started off with a fascination about movement, and a lot of that is visible in the first little films that were created. Melies' films have movement all over the screen, just for the sake of movement. Edison's shorts were people dancing and boxing and the like, so the novelty of seeing things move that weren't really there was a huge driving force behind developing the technology.
I'm also thinking about how interesting the kinetoscope was, and then the movement to projection. Single viewer on a personal screen versus lots of people watching together. The single viewer method didn't really come back around until youtube and computers, and now it's everywhere, Netflix on Cell phones, that kind of thing. Personal media versus group media. I don't really know where my thoughts are going with that but it definitely stuck out to me.
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