While Edison was the first in the States to pioneer in motion picture technology, the Lumière brothers, Louis and Auguste, had been at work in France with their own motion picture device: the Cinématographe. This device, which both recorded and projected back the moving images, was confined to one easily portable box. The portability and flexibility gave it major advantages over Edison’s Kinetoscope, which was a stationary cabinet-like playback device, incapable of recording moving pictures to celluloid film.
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This is pretty interesting how the French had their own version of capturing motion pictures that differed from Edison. Since this is portable in a way I guess this is kind of what maybe offspringed the camcorder and such!
ReplyDeleteI never even realived that there was any other inventions beside Edison's that captured moving pictures. I believe that the fact that it was portable was a big advantage at the time.
ReplyDeleteI never knew that Edison wasn't really the first to come up with the motion picture. That's pretty cool, and really interesting. Learn something new everyday
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. I love how the old style is wooden. I am curious as to how big and heavy that must have been. If only they could see the inventions we have out today!
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