Cinema in 19th century

Fenestella

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Suppose the advent of cinema were a century earlier, many great films made between 1820-1900 were the products of Romanticism and Post-romanticism (visualize the music of Chopin, Rachmaninov, etc. if you're not sure what I mean).

What would those films look like?

Could you name some films actually made in the 20th and 21st century that can illustrate the hypothetical cinema of the Romantic and Post-romantic era?
 
You need earlier POD for 100 years earlier movie indrustry. And probably pretty different society. So movies on early 19th century would be probably quiet different what these were in OTL early 20th century.
 
Suppose the advent of cinema were a century earlier, many great films made between 1820-1900 were the products of Romanticism and Post-romanticism (visualize the music of Chopin, Rachmaninov, etc. if you're not sure what I mean).

What would those films look like?

Could you name some films actually made in the 20th and 21st century that can illustrate the hypothetical cinema of the Romantic and Post-romantic era?

We need an earlier invention of photography. Let´s say, the Chinese invent them in ancient times, maybe transported on the silk road and reaching Europe in the Middle ages or Renaissance. maybe widespread photography in the 17th century. Moving pictures by 1800.
 

Fenestella

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We need an earlier invention of photography. Let´s say, the Chinese invent them in ancient times, maybe transported on the silk road and reaching Europe in the Middle ages or Renaissance. maybe widespread photography in the 17th century. Moving pictures by 1800.
Let's focus on the art and style rather than technology and logistics please
 
We need an earlier invention of photography. Let´s say, the Chinese invent them in ancient times, maybe transported on the silk road and reaching Europe in the Middle ages or Renaissance. maybe widespread photography in the 17th century. Moving pictures by 1800.

Not necessarily.
You could start animated pictures with "cartoons".
Cinema had indeed several precursor technologies in late nineteenth century, some of which could conceivably be pushed back earlier by some time (indeed, the Lumière brothers priority of invention is contested precisely because of this).
Actual cinema of course requires photography of course, and in a fairly advanced version really, but that could be developed quicker and earlier if the other pieces are already in places.
I would also note that available technology would be a significant constraint for style: is sound available, for instance? What about color? and so on. People like George Meliès were extraordinarily inventive within the means they had, but their movies were structurally different from what is produced now (or even in the thirties) because they operated under so much different technical conditions, among other things.
I admit that I would love to see, say, what William Blake or Claude Monet could have done as directors.
 
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