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The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film ... German inventor and film tycoon Oskar Messter was an important figure in ...
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, and director of Roundhay Garden Scene. He was possibly the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film.
The Missing Reel: The Untold Story of the Lost Inventor of Moving Pictures. Charles Atheneum. ISBN 978-0689120688. Cousins, Mark. The Story of Film: A Worldwide History, New York: Thunder's Mouth press, 2006. Dixon, Wheeler Winston and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. A Short History of Film, 2nd edition.
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, [a] is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. [1]
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. [1] [2] [3] He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. [4]
The Lumière brothers (UK: / ˈ l uː m i ɛər /, US: / ˌ l uː m i ˈ ɛər /; French:), Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), [1] [2] were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and ...
The largest lawsuit would come from rival film producer Ansco. Inventor Hannibal Goodwin had filed a patent for nitrocellulose film in 1887, prior to Eastman and Reichenbach's, but it was not granted until 1898. [19] Ansco purchased the patent in 1900 and sued Kodak for infringement.
U2 3D was the first live-action film to be shot, posted, and exhibited entirely in 3D, [128] the first live-action digital 3D film, [129] and the first 3D concert film. [130] Regarding its production, it was the first 3D film shot using a zoom lens , [ 131 ] an aerial camera , [ 132 ] and a multiple-camera setup . [ 129 ]