Film History: The Inventor

Who would have thought, the story of the film begins with the discovery of an effort to win a bet. Leland Stanford, railroad millionaire and horse breeder, wanted to prove that the long run, four hooves bag floating in the ground simultaneously. He bet $ 25,000. For that Stanford hire a photographer Eadweard Muybridge. In 1877, they built a special line in Palo Alto, California by using 12 cameras at the side of the track to capture images when the horse ran.

Of 12 photos taken, only one photograph that shows all four hooves were not hovering over the ground. Apart from the story of Stanford won the bet earlier, a series of images has become an interesting study material. Muybridge then repeated the experiments using 24 cameras in other places. Before Muybridge, actually there are scientists who first recorded the movement of Etienne Jules Marey animals ie. Marey worked at a company in Paris. Marey and Muybridge was finally met. In 1882, Marey had perfected his camera. The camera is shaped like a gun is the first motion picture camera.

The series of images Muybridge's work was also attracted the attention of Thomas Edison. In 1888, he bought a few images. Together with his assistant, William KL Dickson, Edison managed to make a movie player instrument which he named "kinetoscope". Kinetoscope first store was established in New York on April 11, 1894. Only 25 cents, one can see 10 different moving images using the kinetoscope for 90 seconds in the form of black-and-white films.

So far it has not got a camera and tools penutar picture really perfect. Until two brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere Lumiere successfully developed a camera and a film projector that can be displayed on the big screen. In other words, Lumiere berasaudara successfully completed Marey findings and Edison. Dated December 28, 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiere Lumiere for the first time showed a short film in public. The film is titled Lunch Hour at The Lumiere Factory and the Arrival of a Train at Station. The first movie capture images of factory workers who leave the building. The second film depicts the arrival of the train at the station. When the second film is screened, some audience reflexively jump as the train moves towards them