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In the beginning: cinemaâs murky origin story
Everyone knows that the Lumière brothers invented cinema, right? Well, up to a point: the story is more complicated than thatâ¦
27 February 2021
Birt Acres filming the Derby at Epsom on 29 May 1895
The familiar story is that cinema was born when the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière staged their first ticketed film show in Paris on 28 December 1895. But while that is the version of the facts embedded in movie history, it is not true.
A woman looking into a kinetoscope
The movie business did not begin with films projected on a screen but viewed in a box: the Edison âKinetoscopeâ. For their money, the customer of 1894 would bend over, peer through a hole and view a tiny but vivid staged sequence lasting around 17 seconds. This was the culmination of a six-year project at the Edison works, overseen by William Dickson.
This is a still from “All Light, Everywhere.” (Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute)
You’re being watched.
That’s what the film “All Light, Everywhere,” which premiered Jan. 31 at the Sundance Film Festival, wants you to remember. Not only are you being watched, you’re being recorded and someone is sitting at their desk somewhere and putting together their own narrative about the things they are observing about you.
In this film, which feels and looks like an indie PSA, the analyst is sitting at their desk in Scottsdale, Ariz., home of the Axon Enterprise. This software company, the self-professed “tech suite for public safety,” manufactures and calibrates many instruments used in the carrying out of said “public safety,” including tasers, high-tech police cars, drones, eyeglasses you’ve only seen in spy movies, and last but not least, body cameras.