No matter who a person thinks invented the motion picture camera, whether it was Louis Lumiere or Thomas Edison, I’m sure they had no idea what it would become at the turn of the century. Motion pictures, has become an entertainment medium like no other. From Fred Ott’s Sneeze to Psycho to Being John Malkovich, the evolution from moving pictures to a pure art form has been quite amazing. Different steps in filming techniques define eras in one of the most amazing ideas that was ever composed. Silent to Sound. Short to long. Black and white to color. Analog to Digital. All were important marks in the History of Motion Pictures. “It’s different than other arts. It had to be invented”As for the creation of the present day video camera is still in some debate nearly a century later. But, whether you think it was Thomas Edison and William Dickson inventing the kinetoscope or Luis Lumiere coming up with the suit-case-sized cimematographe, the idea, maybe not so hard to conceive now, must have been baffling to the common person in 1895. Edison was already a well-credited inventor by he time he and William Dickson created the kinetoscope. They started the idea of the kinetoscope using the idea of persistence of vision. Persistence of vision is the time that it takes for the images to be recorded in your eye. After receiving the impression of the image, the eye retains the impression of and image, between 1/10th and 1/20th, after it has disappeared. The projector, which is designed with this in mind, compensates for that, with a constant stop and go motion. It plays the image long enough for each image to be interpreted by the eye. The stop and go motion of the film gives the image of motion. If it didn’t stop-and-go than the images I person sees would be blurred. Suppose each exposure on a filmstrip was 1/500th of one second long. And the film is filmed at 24 frames per second. Therefor...
