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Twelve different pictures
Edward Muybridge set up twelve cameras along the edge of a racetrack in a line, to get twelve different pictures of one stride of a gallop (stop motion). if you took many photographs of one image taken very quickly one after the other and put them together-you got a moving image. -
Muybridge Invention
Edward Muybridge was also an inventor. He had come up with a machine called the Zoopraxiscope. This marvelous invention had a viewfinder that peeped into the light box with a disc that spun around. -
Company of photography
Tomas Edison set his company photographer, William Dickinson, the task of creating a machine that could take the idea of moving silhouettes to real images (Kinestoscope). He also invented flexible reels of negatives which could be fed into the kinestoscope. -
First cinema
Ottomar Anschultz discovered how to project this image so that a group of people could all enjoy the same image together. -
Lumiers brothers
The Lumiere brothers got a hold of the two ideas and they merged them into what became the cinema. By then, advances in the photography had reached the point that cameras could record up to 24 frames per second which closely resembled how the eyes sees motion.
