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As already mentioned, all nineteeth-century procinematic devices, up to Edison's Kinetoscope, were based on short loops. As the "seventh art" began to mature, it banished the loop to the low-art realms of the instructional film, the pornographic peepshow, and the animated cartoon. In contrast, narrative cinema has avoided repetitions; like modern Western fictional forms in general, it put forward a notion of human existence as a linear progression through numerous unique events. (Manovich 1999, p. 187.)
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