The first movies were cameras propped in front of stage plays—theater, recorded. @eliotpeper, head of story at @tolanworld, thinks today’s AI storytelling is at that same point right now. He calls today’s AI stories the “animated photographs” of early cinema: static shots that filmed plays and recreated everyday scenes. Within a few years, filmmakers learned how to use the cameras for close-ups and special effects—the building blocks of the modern feature film. AI is at that early stage. Most…