Innovation Economy's Scott Kirsner, Author of Inventing The Movies

I interviewed Scott Kirsner on my HighTechFever.tv show today, mostly reviewing his new book, Inventing The Movies, a survey of the century-long saga of cinema and technology! Scott dates the beginnings to the Kinetoscope by none other than Thomas Edison as the birthpoint of modern movies. Edison made money renting viewings of movie snippets on a person-by-person basis. While inventive himself, Edison the businessman fiercely resisted and even sought to suppress the deployment of movie projection whereby people make money renting viewing seats to many people and allow them to see the same (increasingly longer) movie all at once. After this early example of entrenched player resistance to innovation, Scott goes on to example after example of disruptive battle-royales -- e.g. the shift to synchronized sound, to color, to widescreen, to more recent changes like all-digital editing and ultimately projection. His blog entry on Five Oscar-Winning Movies which transformed the industry is especially eye-opening! And the ferment continues! Read more in Inventing The Movies!