Abstract
The motion picture, the art of the movies or cinema shares with photography its prevailing character as an art of creating images by the use of machines. Every artist has to depend on machines when he creates cinema or photography. The nature of photography, a recording, is at heart representational. Since cinematography is in reality an extension of photography, cinema functions largely like photography in realm of representational subject matter. But creative use of time is its own distinctive element of expression. If the artist combines use of the techniques of montage peculiar to cinema with the documentary and representational nature of photographic images, he gains the power to give the film image its own aesthetic qualities.
