Cinema Cinema

Moving images. Isn't there a magic in those moving images? That feeling, am sure, we all as a kid must have felt when we gazed at the beam of light piercing into the darkened auditorium of a cinema hall from the projector room. Often wondering, what actually happens back there? How is it that those images that we see on the screen are rendered by a beam of light? Never mind, the intellectualized verbalization that we have now; but no mix of words (no matter how profound or how rich in grammar they get!) can ever accurately reproduce that emotional exhilaration that we felt in our bones. Lumiere Brothers , the pioneers of film making and the leading inventors of camera that helped capture the moving images ensured that the world would never be the same again. Their silent documentary Arrival of a Train at the Station  which was so humbly referenced and also tributed to in Martin Scorsese's Hugo has remained a touchstone image for movie buffs. The singularly greatest t...