Thursday, April 15, 2010

The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope. However, this was a far cry from motion pictures as we know them today. Modern motion picture making began with the invention of the motion picture camera.

The Lumiere brothers were not the first to project film. In 1891, the Edison company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. Later in 1896, Edison showed his improved vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S..




"The cinema is an invention without a future" - Louis Lumière


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  1. ValeeApril 15, 2010 at 4:48 PM

    Through all the years that happened that is what let us to have the tchnology that we have today. History is very important for our lifes becuase of all the little things that people in the past made is what we are using right now. Soemtimes we read this and think and was a little poor inventions, but the truth is that was the most amazimg inventions that any human could made.

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