Film Utilization as Education and Entertainment

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Film Utilization as Education and Entertainment
The History of Film
The audience liked how stories are told after the film images were invented. Films encourage people to fly around the world vicariously, witnessing traumatic events, love, and almost all other emotions. Films spread rapidly, making them one of the world’s most common and affordable forms of entertainment. In the middle of the 19th century, photographing became part of public life, particularly during the Civil War, when photographers first captured American battlegrounds (Wang et al. 3554). Several inventors experimented with photographic displays and created a simple toy that allowed the rapid succession of a series of images, creating an illusion of movement. It was referred to as a zoetrope. Scientific American published a series of images of the horse in full gallop on October 19, 1878, along with directions to look through the zoetropes.
The pictures were taken of California’s businessman Leland Stanford and his colleagues by Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer, to make a bet. Stanford argued that all four hooves had been off the ground at some point in a horse’s stride. He engaged Muybridge to take pictures in quick succession of the horse hooves. The 12 pictures from Muybridge revealed the bet won by Stanford. The observations of Muybridge intrigued many, and in 1879 he invented a sequence scope photo-projector with Stanford’s help, the zoogyroscope. With this instrument, the following year, Muybridge fired his pictures at an excited San Francisco crowd.
Etienne-Jules Marey has done similar work in Paris meanwhile. He studied animals in motion, and he created a camera that could take twelve pictures per second from a moving target. Together with Muybridge’s work, the chronophotography technique was the founding concept for movie cameras and projectors. In 1888, Thomas Edison, a leading inventor, and William Dickson, his British assistant, worried that others would gain traction in camera production. The pair developed a computer to capture moving images. The Kinograph, a primitive movie camera, was unveiled in 1890 by Dickson. He revealed in 1892 the computer that could project moving imaging onto a screen, the invention of the Kinetoscope. In the newly opened “Kinetograph Parlors” in 1894, Edison introduced public film screenings.
The French again worked for the same reason. The Cinématographe was invented in the year 1895, by Auguste and Louis Lumière, who were able to show 16 frames a second. Simple movement and action films were thrilling in their available movies: pictures of a baby feeding, a hose squirting water, and the workers fed the Lumière factory (Baskoro 165). Although initial films are commonplace -approaching tr...