What stuck out to me during the reading, and even during the lecture, was the use of early movies as a form of magic and illusion. Many things that we take for granted with modern video editing and special fx were still possible during the early years of cinema, but they were a lot more time intensive and difficult to pull of well. Rather than digitally altering the film they would have to physically manipulate the film and actually cut it together.
I also find the concept of the Kinetoscope to be fascinating. The fact that at one point people went to a special parlor and paid to look at a tiny movie by themselves in a room full of other people looking at their own tiny movie, is very interesting. The fact that movies have gone through so many different stages and at any point could have turned out completely different than we now know them blows my mind.
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