Filming Years 18901900s

by zecoathediesel

Inspired from the Video Game Years. In this new series, it's just a documentary of the film industry. But instead of going year by year. It'll be decade by decade. In this series I'll be writing facts about people's favorite director, actor/actresses, and movies. I'll also be covering anything connected to film industry such as real wars, rise of television and more.

2. Introduction

Before motion cameras or movies exist, people first had to wonder the idea behind motion one of the things that was important was you need some form of image and then if you close with your eye you will see something moving. For example, if you take something like a Fidget Spinner and you spin it, you'll notice on how fast it goes you get the feeling that you getting a sense of motion with it. This is something known as persistence of vision.

Persistence was first described by a Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus and was explored more in 19th century by Joseph Antoine from an invention he made called the Fantascope which is a wheel that has picture and if you spin the wheel you can see the pictures move, considered to be an early step for animation and there several other different types made invented by different people. In 1872 a British photographer, Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned by California senator, Leland Standford to answer a question, "When a horse gallops, does all four of it's hooves leave the ground?" So Muybridge set up 24 cameras and when the horse ran by the cameras, the shutter activated and with the pictures Muybridge was able to create a device called the Zoogyroscope where people can view the horse in motion. This was one of the key factors to inspire people to create movies. Muybridge went and made other motion pictures like this and you can find most of them on YouTube.

Finally, the last person to help put the final pieces in motion picture was George Eastman, founder of the Kodak Camera. Eastman introduce a camera that was portable, easy to buy and to take picture using a thing that would be use today, the film role. This would be the key integrated to make a film, and with the film role not only will it film anything, but anyone can take a picture, with the tag line from Kodak, "You just push a button and we'll do the rest." So with all the pieces on making a film, it was time for history to be made.