BCA 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Today Today, Reald 3D, Oligopoly
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Movies have had to adapt to changing technology. Marley and muybridge -- together they invented the first motion picture camera. Dickson -- perforated the film strip to minimize the jumps -- led to the kinetoscope. Augusta and louis lumiere -- brothers who improved the camera and projector so films could be shown on a large screen. First public showing in france december 28, 1895. Four months after lumiere premier, edison presented the first american motion picture. Thomas armat, an independent inventor improved camera development -- dubbed the. Movies were shown at penny arcades for an extra nickel. Edison had contracted with most of the country"s movie producers, the lumiere brothers and french producer george melies to provide moves for his theaters. Edison owned the marketplace until rival american mutoscope and biograph company (called biograph) made a better motion picture camera. Edison began losing business but biograph signed an agreement with edison.