Who invented the first motion picture?

Question

I mean like was it first silent films or something else. Like the stuff that evolved into modern movies.

Did an American invent it?

Did an American invent the first movie projector?

Answer 1

Thomas edison is credited with making the first motion picture camera the kinetoscope.
His lab assistant did most of the development work Laurie Dickson

wikipedia says
The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. Though not a movie projector—it was designed for films to be viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components—the Kinetoscope introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video: it creates the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter. First described in conceptual terms by U.S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1888, it was largely developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892. Dickson and his team at the Edison lab also devised the Kinetograph, an innovative motion picture camera with rapid intermittent, or stop-and-go, film movement, to photograph movies for in-house experiments and, eventually, commercial Kinetoscope presentations.

In April 1894, the first commercial exhibition of motion pictures in history was given in New York City, using ten Kinetoscopes. Instrumental to the birth of American movie culture, the Kinetoscope also had a major impact in Europe; its influence abroad was magnified by Edison's decision not to seek international patents on the device, facilitating numerous imitations of and improvements on the technology. Film projection soon superseded both the basic exhibition system and the Kinetophone—joining the Kinetoscope with a cylinder phonograph—introduced in 1895. Many of the projection systems developed by Edison's firm in later years would use the Kinetoscope name.

The lumiea brothers came after it was invented, and set up a public display, as the kinetoscope was only for 1 person at a time.

Answer 2

Who Invented The Motion Picture

Answer 3

The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. However, what he invented was a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe, three functions covered in one invention. Thomas Edison acually made it.

Answer 4

Thomas Edison did NOT invent the first movie, it was the Lumiere brothers. about 6 months b4 Edison invented the Kinetiscope, the Lumiere brothers had the first, paying audience in a small coffee shop, on December 28, 1895.

Answer 5

The Lumiere brothers were not the first to project film. In 1891, the Edison company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. In France, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere sought to improve on Edison’s accomplishment. Lumiere invented a portable motion-picture camera.

Answer 6

The first known motion picture (Quicktime movie, somewhat slow to download) was produced by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince at Roundhay House, Leeds, UK some time before October of 1888. Its date can be verified, as the elderly lady in the film, Mrs. Sarah Whitley, died in that month. The two-second-long film was shot on paper or celluloid photographic film through a custom-made camera. Although the original paper film appears to have been lost, two photographic copies of the film dating from the 1930s remain in existence. Le Prince's second film, Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge, was shot shortly afterwards.

Le Prince is generally not well-known outside the film historical community, partly because he did not publicize his works, but also because he disappeared in 1890 during a journey to Paris, France. It's thought that Le Prince committed suicide over money worries, but his body was never found.

Answer 7

Thomas Edison

Answer 8

Thomas Edison invented the first motion picture. In fact it was his attempts to enforce his patent rights that drove other film makers out of his reach to a place known as Hollywood...

Answer 9

Thomas Edison

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Thomas Edison