images which will will never grow older (only fade away)

What tends to be forgotten in the act of creating cinema is that above and beyond all its other functions it is primarily an act of immortalization. 

(For a while at least; firstly as long as our generational minds can conceive immortality; secondly for as long as human minds shall conceive immortality. Lastly for as long as the true immortals shall conceive immortality. Thereafter immortality itself enters something of a conceptual void.)