The birth of
Cinema and moving images at the end of the nineteenth century.
The history
of film cannot be credited to one individual as an oversimplification of any
his-tory often tries to do. Each inventor added to the progress of other
inventors, culminating in progress for the entire art and industry. Often
masked in mystery and fable, the beginnings of film and the silent era of
motion pictures are usually marked by a stigma of crudeness and naiveté, both
on the audience's and filmmakers' parts. However, with the landmark depiction
of a train hurtling toward and past the camera, the Lumière Brothers’ 1895
picture “La Sortie de l’Usine Lumière à Lyon” “Workers Leaving the Lumière
Factory”, was only one of a series of simultaneous artistic and technological
breakthroughs that began to culminate at the end of the nineteenth century.
These triumphs that began with the creation of a machine that captured moving
images led to one of the most celebrated and distinctive art forms at the start
of the 20th century. Audiences had already reveled in motion pictures through
clever uses of slides and mechanisms creating "moving photographs"
with such 16th-century inventions as magic
lanterns. These basic concepts, combined with trial and error and the desire of
audiences across the world to see entertainment projected onto a large screen
in front of them, birthed the movies. From the “actualities” of penny arcades,
the idea of telling a story in order to draw larger crowds through the use of
differing scenes began to formulate in the minds of early pioneers such as
Georges Melies and Edwin S. Porter. This Discovery Guide explores the early
history of cinema, following its foundations as a money-making novelty to its
use as a new type of storytelling and visual art, and the rise of the film
industry. The first moving picture was of a train coming to a stop at the train
station which frightened everyone one in the room. The Lumires also taped
people coming out of their factory as well but I think that these must have
been tests to see if it worked or how it turned out. As they got more confident
with it, film started to evolve by telling little storys
Moving Pictures: The History
of Early Cinema
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