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After reading the article “The Myth of Total Cinema” by Andre Bazin, it opens the discussion of the origins of cinema whether to consider the economic and technical evolution impacted inventor’s imagination causing fortunate accidents that created a phenomenon in cinema. However, this leads inventors to compete with each other over techniques of bringing their imagination to reality but, all agreed that cinema needed to be transparent, flexible, and have a resistant base that was capable of capturing an image instantly. Following this further, Bazin argued “In their imaginations they saw the cinema as total and complete representation of reality; they saw in a trice the reconstruction of a perfect illusion of the outside world in sound, color,

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