How did cinematic storytelling develop from Lumiere to Griffith?
What were the shifts in attitude regarding the role of camera and reality/realism?

There was a great evolution of cinema storytelling from the time of Lumiere to that of Griffith. Basing on my observations, the first films in history, which some were attributed to Lumiere, focused on subjects about the real world. What Lumiere did was that he captured the setting, the performers and all his subjects as they are or as they were perceived in their actual sense. Likewise, Edison's stories dwelled on the real world such that he captured human movements, romance, boxing, cockfighting as they happened, with only the difference of having his shots done indoors, unlike Lumiere, who did most of his shots outdoors. Both directors, Lumiere and Edison, possessed no complexity in their works because of the absence of a storyline. Both also used the camera as a mere recorder of events. Hence, films during this epoch were short,......

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