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Cinema

In 1891, the American Edison company demonstrated

its Kinetoscope—a camera designed for “moving
GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR ®
pictures” to be watched by one person at a time Early attempts at color involved

through a viewer window. Four years later, films were hand-tinting the film. Beginning in
1932, the Technicolor company
shown to audiences of hundreds, but it wasn’t until
COMMUNICATION 1927 that The Jazz Singer became the first film made standard process until the mid-1950s.
introduced a camera, below, that used
three separate films to record red,
blue, and green. This became the
with recorded sound.

CAUGHT ON CAMERA
Early films lasted only a
minute or so and showed
just a single scene. This
cinematograph camera, left,
from 1896 could be swivelled
to follow the action. It was
probably used to film Queen
Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
procession in the UK in 1897.

Protective canisters
contain the film reels.

Muybridge’s galloping horse, 1877
Reels hold the three
lengths of film that
record the three
different colors.

Technicolor
three-strip
camera,
1932

MOVING PICTURES
Cinematography is the illusion of movement by the rapid projection
of photographs. Englishman Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneer
photographer who shot still images of animals and projected them
as moving sequences, a key moment in the development of cinema.

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