technoguy

Series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen. Motion pictures are filmed with a movie camera, which makes rapid exposures of people or objects in motion, and shown with a movie projector, which reproduces sound synchronized with the images. The principal inventors of motion-picture machines were Thomas Alva Edison in the U.S. and the Lumière brothers in France. Film production was centred in France in the early 20th century, but by 1920 the U.S. had become dominant. As directors and stars moved to Hollywood, movie studios expanded, reaching their zenith in the 1930s and '40s, when they also typically owned extensive theatre chains. Moviemaking was marked by a new internationalism in the 1950s and '60s, which also saw the rise of the independent filmmaker. The sophistication of special effects increased greatly from the 1970s. The U.S. film industry, with its immense technical resources, has continued to dominate the world market to the present day. See also Columbia Pictures; MGM; Paramount Communications; RKO; United Artists; Warner Brothers.

Desiree

Do you know who the actual inventor of the motion picture was or is there one person that it can be attributed to?

Trinity

The big screen movies in the 60's usually came on 6 reels or more and was run by usually 3 projectors---called changeover-----if the projectionists fell asleep the movie screen would turn white and and you could hear film flopping around the reel. The crowd would boo loud which would wake the orojectionist to switch over in a hurry.

Trinity

many films would recieve damage so they would need to be cut and spliced----sometimes as many as 10 frames or more. On the screen it would look like a jump in the film.

Trinity

I am not sure if they still exhist under the same title and same job union----if they do they have certainly had some job changes.

Trinity

A projectionist---union man---had a good paying job----but a lonely job. In a small room away from people and other employees----usually a projection room had bathroom facilities within the room because the requirement to be close by in case of film breakage or other mis function. I have toured many old style projection rooms---very interesting.

Desiree

Thats really neat. Now days they get to hang out in the little room for 2 minutes to start it then they go out and work the counter. That had to have been a mess to learn I have never been able to see an old system but some small towns have the orignal old machines and seating everytthing.

rjpeters

The very first machine that had a patent to show movies was called the "zoopraxiscope" or "the wheel of life." (http://inventors.about.com/library/i...npictures.htm). William Lincoln patened it in 1867. Louis Lumiere is the one that is credited with actually having the first motion picture camera that was used to show movies to audiences. Thomas Armat and C. Francis Jenkins invented the vitascope and it was marketed by the Edison Manufacturing Company as a motion picture camera to use in theatre. Later on in the same year the Edison Manufacturing Company developed their own camera called the Projectoscope or Projecting Kinetoscope so they quit making the vitascope.

Desiree

I appreciate the info.

Desiree

Thats was really interesting.