ABSTRACT
Moving pictures are just that: pictures which move, not just pictures of moving things. Before the advent of moving pictures, it would not have been illuminating to characterize nonmoving pictures as nonmoving; there would have been no other sort. The first movies used moving pictures to represent motion, and despite Kant's dictum, it is difficult to think that this is not a breakthrough of sorts of representation, much in the way in which it would have been a breakthrough to use colors to represent colored things, heretofore represented only in white and black and perhaps the difference can be brought out this way. The earliest moving pictures, then, also showed things moving: not trains as such shown as moving, such as the author see in Turner, but moving trains they see move: not just moving horses but horses moving, and the like.
