Personally I found the movies to be some of the most comprehensive material in understanding just how far we've come in our technologies. We now consider movies of far superior quality to the early moving picture toys to be "homemade" if not budgeted with several hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In a sense, however, I think that the attachment we have towards a motion picture in modern times has been significantly lessened. The novelty has worn off. We just see another movie with a different story line. It still has the same clarity as a movie made two years ago and the plot is, more than likely, already composed of movies we've already seen. I think there was a lot more satisfaction in seeing something visually move WITHOUT a puppeteer.

A comment that was made in class was that since people didn't generally see things that weren't "real" a hundred years ago, simply watching people go to work on a screen was really a novel and exciting experience. I agree. We're accustomed to the screen. We want more and rarely appreciate the experience we are surrounded with every day.