Free forever. Walk eleven rooms from the magic lantern to the machine in your pocket: the ghosts of 1790s Paris, the toys that taught pictures to move, the night of December 28, 1895, the magician who stayed in his seat, the first glass studio, the tricks, the fall, the rescue, and the heirs. Every generation gets a new apparatus. This museum exists so you recognize yours.

Why does your film look fake? Twelve checks, ten minutes, and you will know exactly which one is betraying you and what heals it. Run each check on your own film as you go. By the last lesson you will have a scored diagnosis and know exactly which module your film needs next. Free forever, because every magician deserves to know where the trick is failing.

The third free course, and the last one before you build. Every genre is a promise to an audience, and every genre asks something different of the machine. Some the apparatus loves. Some it fights. This is the map: seventeen territories walked in order of how hard they are to build, every sub-genre named, and one decision to reach by the end. You arrive at the last lesson knowing your ground. Then the real work starts.