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1. CINEMA’S BIRTHDAY In 1904 Edwear Muybrige, an Englishman,
needed to settle a $25,000,00 bet.
He believed that a galloping horse Had all four
feet off of the ground at the same time but
others said was impossible. The problem was
That galloping hooves move too fast for the
eye to see.
Many inventors, scientists,
manufacturers and scientists have
observed the visual phenomenon that
a series of individual still pictures set into
motion created the illusion of
movement - a concept termed
persistence of vision. This illusion of
motion was first described by British
physician Peter Mark Roget in 1824, and
was a first step in the development of
the cinema.
In an effort to settle the issue
once And for all an experiment
was set up In which a rapid
sequence of photos Was taken
of a running horse. When the
pictures were developed it
Was found that the horse did
indeed have all four feet off the
ground for split-second.
The birth of USA cinema:
In the late 1880s, famed American inventor
Alva Edison and his young British assistant
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson in his
Laboratories in west orange, New jersey,
Borrowed from the earlier work of
Muybridge Their goal was to construct a
device for recording movement
On film, and another device for viewing
film.
EDISON WILLIAM
The motor-driven camera
was designed to capture
movement with a
synchronized shutter
And sprocket system that
could move The film
through the camera by
an electric motor.
KINETOSCOPE

2. THE WORLD FIRST FILM
PRODUCTION STUDIO
BLACK MARIA or the kinetographic
Theatre was built on the ground of
Edison’s laboratories at west orange
New jersey. Construction began in
December 1892, and it was
completed by February 1, 1893 at a
cost $637,67. it was constructed for
purpose of making film strip for the
kinetoscope.
It was a black, tar-paper covered
building/studio
And build with a timetable to
orient itself throughout the day to
Follow the natural sunlight.
BLACK MARIA
On April 14, 1894, the Holland Brothers
opened the first Kinetoscope Parlor at
1155 Broadway In New York city and for
the first time, they commercially exhibited
movies, as we know them today, in their
amusement arcade. Each film cost 5 cent
to view. Patrones paid 25 cents as the
admission charge to view films in five
kindetoscope machines placed in two
rows.
The Lumière brothers:
Auguste and Louis, were sons of well
known Lyons based portrait painter
Antoine Lumière. they were both
technically minded and excelled in
science subjects and were sent to
Technical School.
By early 1895, the brothers had invented
their own device combining camera with
printer and projector and called it the
Cinématographe. Patenting it on February
13th 1895,the Cinématographe was much
smaller than Edison’s Kinetograph, was
lightweight, and was hand cranked. The
Lumières used a film speed of 16 frames
per second, much slower compared with
Edison’s 48 fps - this meant that less film was
used and also the clatter and grinding
associated with Edison’s device was
reduced.
ANDREW GEORGE