MOVING PICTURES by MARC RUIZ

Athanasius Kircher first wrote about magic lanterns. This instrument was very simple you first put plates of coloured glass. This plate had pictures on them Light when throw the plates, this made pictures bigger and you projected these pictures on to a screen on a wall. One of the most famous was called Phantasmagoria.

The cinema was invented in the end of the 19th century; the most important inventors were Thomas and the Lumiere brothers. In 1890 Edison and his assistant invented the kinetograph, a camera for recording moving pictures. Only one person could look in each machine.

The cinematographer was invented in France by the Lumiere brothers (1895). It was different from Edison’s kinetoscope because it was both a camera and a projector, so you could project films on to screen for a big audience. The first film in history was made by the Lumiere brothers in 1895. In France it was called La sortie des usines Lumiere. People soon began to open places to show this new films to the public. The first opened in 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

At first, people could watch films only in cinemas, but with the invention of television, people began to watch films in their own homes. There were many inventors of the television set (john Logie Baird, American Philo Farnsworth, Vadimir Zworykin).