I tend to agree.
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Film
History of Film
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Film as a media was invented in the 1890's after the advent of film photography.
The Lumiere Brothers
A Trip To the Moon (Georges Melies, 1902) -earliest example of the science fiction film genre.
1920's
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Surrealism
Dada
Constructivism
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In the 1920's artists began exploring Film as an artistic medium, bringing film into art discourse.
Salvador Dali
Man Ray
Fernand Leger
Jean Cocteau
Sergei Eisenstein
Salvador Dali and Man Ray in Paris
