The movies might have faded away altogether had it not been for the release of Cinderella in 1900. Directed by a French magician, Georges
Méliès, Cinderella was one of the first motion pictures to tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end. The fairy tale was divided into twenty
tableaux, or scenes; the action of each tableau kept the plot moving forward. As obvious as this approach may sound, it nevertheless
revolutionized the industry. More than a decade after the invention of the celluloid strip, film narrative had at last been discovered. The film
Cinderella was