Technology Another Student Talked About

     I forget who it was, but another student talked about the invention of motion picture.  This invention ties in pretty well with the technology I talked about, the TV.  Of course, before the television was invented, the motion picture was.   

    The student talked about the early idea of a moving picture being the flip book.  Flip books are books in which every page has an image, and when you flip through the pages really fast, it looks like one moving image.  The most famous example of this concept is the "Galloping Horse," which contains 16 consecutive pictures and was shown on a "sequential image projector."

    According to the student, the "kinetograph" was invented in 1890.  The kinetograph was able to show images in rapid succession along the style of a flip book to simulate motion.  The first motion picture shown to the public was shown in 1893.  Another progression in motion picture technology was the "cinematographe," which was a projector that could show 16 frames per second.  For reference, most modern video games play at 60 frames per second.

    The continued development of motion pictures led to silent films, talkies, and eventually color films.  The invention of the television was also a huge development for motion pictures because it allowed families to have their own sources of motion pictures in their own houses. 

 Here is one of the sources the group used:
https://www.britannica.com/art/history-of-the-motion-picture

 

"Galloping Horse"