The invention of movies:

In 1875 the businessman and race horse owner Leland Standford was debating with his friends that whether or not all four hooves were of the ground during a gallop. Leland met a photographer Edward Muybridge and asked him to settle the debate using photography. So Muybridge set 12 cameras on the side of a race track to get 12 photos of a gallop. When the photos were done, Muybridge made a discovery that if you take a few photos correctly after one another you get a moving picture. Muybridge made a machine called the Zoopraxiscope. The zoopraxiscope had a viewfinder that peeped into a light box. Inside the light box was a disk that spun around. So to test his invention Muybridge put the photos of the horse into the zoopraxiscope he saw the horse galloping repeatedly. With this experiment he became the father of the moving picture or in today’s term movies. The next year Thomas Edison the inventor of the lightbulb asked his company photographer, William Dickonson, the task of creating a machine that could get the idea of moving silhouettes to real images. William dickonson made the kinetoscope and invented a flexible reels that could be fed into the kinetoscope. But only one person could view the image at once. A German named Otamar Anschutz discovered how a group of people could all enjoy the the same image together. When the French brothers Auguste and Luis Lumiere got a hold of the two ideas they merged them into what became the cinema.

 

 

 

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