How the Movies Began

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1947

Complete Record: scientific history of film. CU of reel beginning to turn. voice over “the story of a revolutionary science. the science of motion pictures.” crude beginnings... two glass plates with different pictures painted on them. one moves over the other to make a moving picture. demonstration of this with a pig on one plate moving over a farm on another plate. also with a mouse on one plate and a cat on another. and a boy throwing a stick for a DOG. early crude animation of a dolphin swimming/jumping. drummer boy animation moves faster and more smoothly with the help of mirrors. then photographs instead of drawings. photos of horses. CU of man looking through a peep show viewer, turning the handle. lots of early film projectors. early film of the Bowery in New York in the 1890s. Broadway at the turn of the century. Pan of people in movie theater. Scenes from “Noah’s Ark” film made in the 1910s. Closing shot pulling back on Eastman House.