Cinema was invented after an extended process. It all began with moving pictures and Eadweard Muybridge was the pioneer.
Muybridge was an English photographer who, was hired to photograph a horse trotting, to prove that at one point, all for legs are off the surface simultaneously. However, his camera’s shutter was not as fast as it was believed to be. So, they interrupted the studies and traveled to several places; when he returned, he decided to use a special shutter developed by him. Where the exposure was in a second.
When he finally got the pictures it proved that a horse could not stay with all four legs off the surface, and he was criticized. Not able to battle the critics he invented a lantern that projected images in immediate succession onto a screen from illustrations printed on a rotating glass disc, generating the illusion of moving pictures. The zoopraxiscope, in which he would utilize for his lectures on animal locomotion. That invention is a significant ancestor of modern cinema. Giving us a taste of the moving images we see on the screens.
Some inventors found their way closer to creating this Cinema we all talk about. Cinematography is the illusion of movement by the recording and succeeding immediate projection of numerous still pictures on a screen.
In the 1890s Thomas A. Edison invented a projector that is an ancestor of the motion picture film projector we have nowadays. The Kinetoscope.
The Kinetoscope was a projector that allowed one person at a time to view a sequence of moving images
After the invention, of the Kinetoscope, other inventors brought the idea of the film to life.
In France, The Lumière Brothers not just invented the Cinématographe, which is a camera, projector, and film printer all in one.
The invention was revolutionary, not only could it be shown to an audience, it was also lighter and portable.
The Lumière Brothers made several movies and were the first to present a motion picture to a paying audience, and it is believed that when they presented the short documentary: L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat ( Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat) people stood up and shouted in fear that the train would hit them.
Right at about the same time that The Lumière Brothers introduced the French films, the British inventor Robert Paul also wanted to create a device like the Kinetoscope.
Robert Paul was an electrical engineer, he was asked to duplicate the Kinetoscope in England, even though, Paul was not happy with the idea of one person at a time, he considered creating a camera that would develop films for the Kinetoscope.
He collaborated with Birt Acres a photographer they created the camera It was established on Etienne-Jules Marey’s Chronophotographe but utilized 35mm instant printer film as it was obtained by Edison for the Kinetoscope.
However, Acres and Paul fell apart. After hearing about the Lumière Brothers’ success he decided that the films should go on a screen so he created The Animatograph/ Theatrograph. With that invention, Paul became the Father of the British Film Industry.
Cinematography is the art of motion-picture photography and filming. And this art has many fathers.
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