Moving Forward

Continuing the chapter, it further discusses the concepts of movement explored by artists as a new form of media in art. Film of the Avant –Grade Cinema was first developed by Thomas Edison with his assistant William Kennedy Laurie Dickson when experimenting with a phonograph that made images move in an animated fashion. This leads to the works of the director Georges Méliès, a great innovator of his time, directing multiple silent short films, including his most famous work: Le Voyage dans la Lune, which since then has been praised as a spectacle sensation. This was the beginning of what would be the dawn of cinema. After that time, Sergei Einstein was known to use various technological methods in filming his work, such as the The Battleship Potemkin of 1925. Moving through the 1920s, film and photography go hand-in-foot, as both mediums explore the concepts of movement.