Who Invented the Movie Camera?: Edison vs. Friese-Greene
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION FIRST FILMMAKERS CHAPTER 1 TELEGRAPHER TURNED INVENTOR CHAPTER 2 THE UISIONARY PHOTOGRAPHER CHAPTER 3 TAKING THE LEAD CHAPTER 4 WHO WAS FIRST INVENTOR MATCHUP TIMELINE SOURCE NOTES GLOSSARY FURTHER INFORMATION INDEX
INTRODUCTION FIRST FILMMAKERS The The theater lights dim and the crowd hushes The newest sci fi thriller is about to start You slide on your 3 D glasses and wait for this epic movie to begin Soon you're whisked away to another world where aliens battle humans Spaceships soar through the stars and seem to come right at you Laser sounds boom from speakers all around you Are you ready for this intergalactic voyage Movies have come a long way since movie cameras were invented more than a century ago
A modern movie camera Movies make pictures come to life They create worlds you can escape into But just a little more than a century ago the art of making pictures move was out of reach The race to become the mastermind behind the movie camera took off in 1870 with the invention of film that could be exposed in a fraction of a second rather than the hour needed at the dawn of photography After that first hurdle was cleared inventors started focusing on a camera that could take pictures rapidly one after the other Projecting them quickly would give the illusion of motion on a screen Two contenders squared off One was the already well known American inventor Thomas Edison The other wasn't quite as famous British photographer William Friese Greene These two filmmakers on opposite sides of the Atlantic would compete to make moving pictures a reality Who would be the front running filmmaker
