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keiferskiyesterday at 10:56 AM1 replyview on HN

It’s amazing to think that film / moving images as an art form is only a little over a century old. Painting, sculpture, drawing, etc. are orders of magnitude older.

It also makes me wonder what the future of the form will be. Historically speaking we’re still at the very beginning of it.


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justincormackyesterday at 11:56 AM

The oldest surviving photograph is 200 years old this year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gra...