by Peter Howell
The movies have always been in crisis. From the moment Thomas Edison began the world’s first public film showings in 1894, using his projector precursor the Kinetoscope, there have been doubts about how best to draw an audience with the new medium. The fretting continued through cinema’s first century and beyond, as purists and innovators debated the merits (and profits) of silent vs. sound, monochrome vs. colour and 2-D vs. 3-D. Whatever happens, we still keep going out to the movies...[continued]
