Actually, what Edison did was put together several things that were already around. The first was photography, which was an adaptation of the daguerrotype. The second was the 'magic lantern', in which transparent images were projected onto a light-colored background. The third was the zoetrope, an interesting device in which a series of still images were set around the inside of a horizontal circle, with slits dividing them. As the viewer cranked the handle and looked through the slits as he pictures went around in sequence, the image seemed to move.
The final factor was an event in California that was originally set up to settle a bet. The question was: do all four legs of a horse come off the ground at the gallop. The man who arranged the experiment, whose name I forget at the moment, set up a series of 22 cameras, each linked to a trip wire that crossed the track. Opposite each camera was a numbered card, so that the photographic plates would be developed in the correct order. A rider galloped his horse down the track, tripping each wire in turn, which in turn triggered the appropriate camera. Edison was inspired to put all these jigsaw pieces together to create what we call 'motion pictures'.
BTW, when the pictures were developed, it was discovered that yes, all four legs *do* come off the ground at the gallop. You can see a re-enactment of the event in one of the episodes of 'Connections 3', based on 'The Knowledge Web', by James Burke.
2007-05-10 15:26:27
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answered by JelliclePat 4
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It wasn't as if someone said one day "I'm gonna invent a movie!". It started in the early 1880 when the first motion picture camera was created (a series of pictures being rolled in a projector) This meant that the graphics shown were only pictures and therefore no editing or special effects had been invented yet.
The world's earliest surviving film (meaning it's not really the first one ever made) is the Roundhay Garden by Loui Le Prince
2007-05-10 22:15:26
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answered by ^ Cho-chan ^ 2
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The Lumiere Brothers in Southern France 19th century
2007-05-11 00:59:13
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answered by brainstorm 7
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Thomas Alva Edison
Menlo Park, New Jersey
2007-05-10 22:11:19
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answered by Bobuck 4
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Thomas Edison invented the first moving cameras and projectors, and he sued the pants off of anyone who tried to compete. He patented and copyrighted so many of the mechanics that it was hard for anyone else to manufacture one. Little known fact, he supposedly had teams of thugs that would go out and threaten, and smash the equipment of, the competition, to bully them into becoming partners with Edison (or selling out to him) - if lawsuits didn't work.
2007-05-10 22:17:42
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answered by steddy voter 6
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Thomas Alva ads ion
2007-05-13 02:31:11
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answered by geet 4
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The Lumiere Brothers
Some of their home movies are quite good.
2007-05-11 02:56:40
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answered by Anonymous
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Seamore Butts
2007-05-10 22:15:26
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answered by Anonymous
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"Les fréres Lumiére" - France...
Sorry eberybody who answer above me, but at France, Brothers Lumiére, made the first movie..
People leaving an industrial plant..... with the "cinematrograf"
That's true... !!!!!!!
2007-05-10 22:57:08
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answered by Anonymous
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