Historical contribution
What Méliès contributed
Georges Méliès used substitution, multiple exposure, sets and editing to construct impossible events. Alice Guy-Blaché and other early directors expanded narrative.
Why it mattered
Preserves visible change as replayable, editable and distributable sequences.
Connected topics
Where this fits in ITEM
Evidence
Sources and further reading
- The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde,
Tom Gunning · 1986