👓Short-Term vs. Long-Term Vision

The Lumière brothers' Cinématographe was a marvel creation of the time, it could be used as camera, printer, and projector Unlike Edison's Kinetoscope, which was a peep-show device for individual viewing, the Cinématographe projected images onto a screen, enabling shared public experiences

The Lumière brothers themselves had a somewhat limited view of cinema's long-term potential. Louis Lumière famously believed cinema was "an invention without a future" and considered it a temporary novelty. They eventually withdrew from the film exhibition business