Although it was invented in the late 1890s, it wasn't actually until the 20th century that the movie camera really took off. It fundamentally changed people's lives and the way they communicated; it helped to tear down borders and showed people all the beauties of the world, along with all its horrors and injustices.

I believe that the movie camera was one of the most important and influential objects of the 20th century, both for its capacity to immortalize motion and life on film and for its ability to disseminate and expose humanity's grandeur and nobility and to denounce its barbarity.