Following with the history of moving images, in June1878 the photographer Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned to take photos of a running horse for a scientific study. He took a sequence of consecutive pictures and realised that when placing them in order at an specific speed, he could actually see the images moving like the below:
To view these pictures like the above, Muybridge created the "zoopraxiscope" - a device that used the principles of Joseph Plateau's disks. This creation also inspired the later invention of the Kinetoscope by Thomas Edison (yeap. that Thomas Edison) and William Kennedy Dickson's in 1892.
The Kinetoscope was a device that allowed individual view of moving images through a hole on the top. It was not a movie projector, but it is was the precedent for the cinema industry as it used a strip of perforated film with sequential images over a light source and at a high speed frame.
Moving the focus a little bit, if we think specifically on image projection, there are much older devices such as the Camera obscura and the Magic Lantern.
At this stage, my view of the beginning of the cinema industry is a combination of the moving images and recording technologies with the technology of image projection. Editing and storytelling came no long after.
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