Making Movies

Making Movies

This week we are tasked with writing a blog about a different type of technology that we did not research on our own. I am choosing to write about the motion picture camera. The first motion picture camera was invented in 1892. Inventors Thomas Edison and William Kennedy designed the motion picture camera more commonly referred to as the "movie camera." The idea behind a motion picture camera is that the camera has the ability to take multiple pictures and those pictures will come together to seem as if the picture is moving. Cameras today still use this technique but the number of frames being taken per second has increased. A year after the invention of the motion picture, Edison and Kennedy made the kinetoscope which allowed a person to watch the film on camera. The kinetoscope was different from older film cameras. The film had the ability to be wrapped around a wheel or spool and took pictures so fast that it seemed as if the pictures were moving. Later in 1895, The Lumiere brothers invented the first motion picture film which led to the opening of movie theatres in 1905. During the 1920s it was assumed that movie theatres would not thrive because of the Great Depression. However, theatres actually did the opposite. There was an increase in movie theatre attendance during the Depression because people were using the movies as an outlet to ignore what was happening with the stock market and have something fun to pass the time. Today, going to the movies is still one of the most familiar pastimes for people around the world. 

This is a little timeline of the history of the movie camera