HISTORY OF FILMS

 

KINETOPHONE

The main reason for a cinema is to go watch movies. If you want to watch a show of any kind, you can watch them on Television. Nowadays, people watch all their favourite movies and TV shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu, HBO max and other websites. People have set their careers as directors, assistants, actors, make-up artists….but what was the reason for the beginning of movies?

How did the film industry come to life?

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Movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick is a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.

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The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in Paris, France. They used a device of their own making, the Cinematographer, which was a camera, a projector and a film printer all in one.

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The world's earliest surviving motion-picture film, showing actual consecutive action is called Roundhay Garden Scene. It's a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. While it's just 2.11 seconds long, it is technically a movie.

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The people who created films was none other than Thomas Edison and Eadweard Muybridge

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“Partly, people invented movies because they could join the technology of photography with an interest in seeing pictures move,” says Hegglund when the question “Why was film made” came to light.

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The first photographic camera developed for commercial manufacture was a daguerreotype camera, built by Alphonse Giroux in 1839.

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These are just some of the facts that the film history has. There is a rich history in every place and there is definitely some secrets we’ll uncover in later years. Do you any other film facts? Let me know in the comments