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How was cinema born?

Cinema originates from "moving pictures". But in order to make the pictures move, it took many years, and it happened thanks to the efforts of many people. Let us turn to the 1800s, when the first experiments were made to obtain images that create the illusion of movement. For example, several cameras were set up to take a series of pictures of a running horse.

Roll film was invented in the late 1880s. Then they came up with cameras that photographed a series of separate, sequential episodes of movement. These were frames of the film, which then scrolled at the same speed as they were filmed. At the same time, a moving image was displayed on the screen. These were "moving pictures". They have become very popular. At first, these were simple scenes from the surrounding reality: the surf, a running horse, children swinging on a swing, a train arriving at the station.

The first story film was created in the laboratory of Thomas Edison in 1903. It was The Great Train Robbery. The film became a sensation. It was shown in specially darkened tents. The first fixed theaters in the United States appeared in 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The owners called them cinematographs. Soon they were opened all over the country, and everyone began to go to the cinema. Most of the early films were produced in New York and New Jersey. And only in 1913 films began to be released in Hollywood.

Author: Likum A.

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