Origin of Cinema

 

Cinema appeared with the Lumiere brothers, based on an invention of Thomas Alva Edison, the Kinetoscope, they used this apparatus for making a machine that collected instant movement by taking a lot of photos in a short time. The first camera they made wasn’t able to reproduce the images it took. The first “film” that was played for a group of people was a bunch of workers coming out of a factory, and after that one, which wasn’t really famous was a train coming into a station, this film shocked the people that watched it, so it get really known and some people started building machines similar to Lumiere brother’s one.

 

But as an interesting fact, the actual first film in the world was done by Le Prince, it was 1.66 seconds long, with 50 photograms, and it was a woman walking in a garden, was a really small piece of cinema, but is the first image in movement that we know about, it was called “The scene in Rondhay’s garden”, in 1988 2 years before Thomas Alva Edison sent a prototype of a cinematograph, and seven years before the “first movie” ever, by the Lumiere brothers.

 

The first movie created by the Lumiere brother was a number of workers coming out from a factory, as I told you before, it was protected on a cinema called Indian Salon in the Great Cafe. Not many people went, only the people that saw the posters around the city and the people that were personally invited by the Lumiere brothers, and the witnesses say that the people there were completely surprised.