A Look At Special Effects Throughout History
In the beginning there were merely pictures, but not soon afterward people got bored with just looking at still images. That is when Alva Edison assigned his assistant, on his behalf, to invent something to record moving pictures (Rickitt 10). Out of that grew the Kinetoscope, which used a lantern to project a series of pictures (25-30 per second) through a lens which gave the illusion of movement (10). The Lumière brothers, of Paris, were then first to invent the Cinèmatographe (10). The Cinèmatographe would then project these images on a larger screen, like the projectors of today. The Lumières at first felt that their invention was just a craze but decided to try and use it for short-term financial gain (10). The brothers then gave the first public showing of films on December 28, 1885(10). One of the featured films was Train Arriving at a Station, which caused such an uproar because the audiences thought the train was going to jump off the screen towards them (10). The......
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