by Francis Friel

Your boy Georgie again!

A typically creepy depiction of the Elf King Santa Claus, Smith was a pretty inventive old chap and basically upped his game every time he got behind the camera. I don't even know how Cinema really even got very far between what he was doing and the sheer insanity of what Melies was up to at the same time. 

For such a weird new fad, you'd expect other filmmakers would look at their work and just quit, knowing they were being just straight up outclassed in every respect by a few geniuses from out of fucking nowhere.

But they didn't. Directors continued on the righteous path and improved their art and in 2015 Cinema is still alive and able to offer us TED 2.