The Age Of Film in Comparison to Other Artistic Mediums

 Ancient Artforms 

    Having some way for people to express themselves in not direct forms has been around for as long as humans have existed. The recorded earliest form of art has been painting, with the oldest cave painting being over 44,000 years old, the medium has had very long to develop. Though with all things human, this development was very slow for a long section of our existence, with only the past two thousand years holding a majority of the artforms change. A relatively more recent medium of art is that of song, though it is impossible to say how old songs are as a whole, the oldest example known to us now is the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal, an ancient song dating to around 1400 BCE. Due to the nature of songs, it is very likely
that songs are as old if not older than paintings, for when a painting is created, there is a physical object that in theory could survive thousands of years, meanwhile with songs, it is very possible for a song to be created and then fade from social consciousness and be forgotten forever. Given the complexity of the oldest recorded song, it can be assumed that the medium had a long while to develop much like painting. 



Recent Artforms in Comparison

    Now that the scale of how old those artistic mediums were and how far they've developed over thousands of years has been established, let us look at a far more recent artistic medium, film. Film can date its existence back to only the very late 1800s, giving it just about 125 years of its existence. The other forms of art have had thousands of years to develop and change, giving us wonderful pieces of art that share key traits from, but usually fundamentally change the original pieces of the art form. Applying this same timescale for art to change to film, we would assume that all films created today greatly resemble those of the Lumiere brothers. Of course with our knowledge of the state of the medium today, we know that film has come a very long way since its inception, this poses the question, why has it changed so much? I believe the reason for this is that we now are generally smarter than the people of before, and we don't have to worry about so many things. People then didn't have a lot of time to write songs when a wild animal could kill them any day or they were dying of splinters, we simply now have a better understanding of the world around us, and aren't afraid of dying every day.

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