What Is Cinema?

Re-watched The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly last night. My favorite scene of the movie is above -- and it is a stark reminder of what cinema at the very essence. Cinema is not story. Cinema is not spectacle. Cinema is not entertainment. Fundamentally, Cinema is Movement. Characters, objects, and the camera moving through space is what separates cinema from the other forms which influence it, including music, stories, spectacle...