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Cinema's most immediate predecessors share something else. As the nineteenth-century obsession with movement intensified, devices that could animate more than just a few images became increasingly popular. All of them - the Zootrope, the Phonoscope, the Tachyscope, the Kinetoscope - were based on loops, sequences of images featuring complete actions that could be played repeatedly. . . . Even Edison's Kinetoscope (1892 - 1896), the first modern cinematic machine to employ film, continued to arrange images in a loop. Fifty feet of film translated to an approximately twenty-second-long presentation. The genre's potential development was cut short when cinema adopted a much longer narrative form. (Manovich 1999, p. 177.)
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Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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