Complete History of the Discovery of Cinematography
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Subtitled An Illustrated Chronological History of the Development of Motion Pictures Covering 2,500 Years Leading to Cinematography in the 1800’s, this website is researched, compiled, and written by Paul T. Burns. This is a chronology in fifteen chapters that focuses on time periods beginning in 900 BC through 1900 AD and explores the events and inventions that gave moving pictures their motion. This timeline traces the discovery, invention, and growth of necessary elements to motion pictures including optics, pinhole images, camera obscura, persistence of vision, showmen, magic lanterns, light, lenses, light-sensitive substances, phantasmagoria, motion study analysis, photography, and stop-action series photography.
