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The
history of film starts … when exactly? The history of
moving images goes back to more than one thousand years, but
man's eternal dream of depicting movement and preserving time
must originate from the first campfires of humanity.
December
28th 1895 can be considered the birthday of projected film
presented in a theater. It was then that Antoine Lumiére
from Lyon, the director of a plant producing film materials
and the father of August and Louis Lumiére, hosted
in the Grand Café of Paris a show of living pictures.
It was shot by cameras that his sons had developed, and presented
with projectors they had constructed. It was the first time
the term 'cinématographe' was used, formed of the Greek
words 'kinéma' (movement) and 'graphein' (to write,
to draw, to inscribe). Among those invited was also the director
of the Houdini Theater, the master illusionist Georges Méliès.
A Very Short History of Cinema [A very short history of cinema | National Science and Media Museum]
The
Complete History of the Discovery of Cinematography [www.precinemahistory.net]
National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI)
[https://kavi.fi/en/]
Elonet database [https://elonet.finna.fi/]
The
Internet Movie Database
[www.imdb.org]
Inventing
Entertainment. The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of
the Edison Companies
[memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml]
The History of Film Timeline [The History of Film Timeline — All Eras of Film History Explained (studiobinder.com)]
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