Media Arts: Film History

In media class we began to learn about the history of film including the phenomenon of persistence of vision and the development of a standard 24 Frames Per Second which makes film possible, early predecessors to film such as the camera obscura (Latin; camera for "vaulted chamber/room", obscura for "dark", together "darkened chamber/room") and the zoetrope (Greek taken to mean "active turn" or "wheel of life") and the men who invented the camera: Thomas Edison and William K. Dickson as well as the film projector, The Lumiere Brothers who's first film La Sortie des usines Lumière à Lyon which is displayed above was shown at Paris's Grand Café on December 28, 1895 along with others such as Le Repas de Bébé and later the popular Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat shown below