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  2. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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    While conventional cameras were becoming more refined and sophisticated, an entirely new type of camera appeared on the market in 1949. This was the Polaroid Model 95, the world's first viable instant-picture camera. Known as a Land Camera after its inventor, of 1965, was a huge success and remains one of the top-selling cameras of all time.

  3. History of film - Wikipedia

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    Paul's 'Cinematograph Camera No. 1' of 1895 was the first camera to feature reverse-cranking, which allowed the same film footage to be exposed several times, thereby creating multiple exposures. This technique was first used in his 1901 film Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost. Both filmmakers experimented with the speeds of the camera to generate new ...

  4. Movie camera - Wikipedia

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    The use of movie cameras had an upsurge in popularity in the immediate post-war period giving rise to the creation of home movies. Compared to the pre-war models, these cameras were small, light, fairly sophisticated and affordable. An extremely compact 35 mm movie camera Kinamo was designed by Emanuel Goldberg for amateur and semi-professional ...

  5. History of film technology - Wikipedia

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    In the first decades of the 20th century, movies grew much longer and the medium quickly developed into one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment. The breakthrough of synchronized sound occurred at the end of the 1920s and that of full color motion picture film in the 1930s (although black and white films remained very ...

  6. Louis Le Prince - Wikipedia

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    The last remaining film of Le Prince's single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of Adolphe Le Prince playing a diatonic button accordion. It was recorded on the steps of the house of Joseph Whitley, Louis's father-in-law. [2] The recording date may be the same as Roundhay Garden as the camera is in a similar position and Adolphe is dressed ...

  7. Kazimierz Prószyński - Wikipedia

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    At the beginning of the 20th century, he was active in France and England as an inventor and producer of the Aeroscope (1909) camera, powered by compressed air. Filming with Aeroscope the cameraman did not have to turn the crank, as in all cameras of that time, so he had both hands on the camera to operate. This made it possible to film with a ...

  8. List of cinematic firsts - Wikipedia

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    U2 3D was the first live-action film to be shot, posted, and exhibited entirely in 3D, [129] the first live-action digital 3D film, [130] and the first 3D concert film. [131] Regarding its production, it was the first 3D film shot using a zoom lens , [ 132 ] an aerial camera , [ 133 ] and a multiple-camera setup . [ 130 ]

  9. William Kennedy Dickson - Wikipedia

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    This idea had first been made public in 1890 in descriptions of the moving picture camera of William Friese-Greene. [10] These former Edison associates helped to design the Eidoloscope projector system and a widescreen camera to film with, which would be used in the first commercial movie screening in world history on 20 May 1895. [11]