Film, huh?
As you can probably tell from my past posts, I am sort of a film fanatic. Although, I've never thought about the history of film. Now film is defined as a thin flexible strip of plastic or other material coated with light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, used to produce photographs or motion pictures. Film was and is basically known as the illusion of motion. This is because film used to be just a series of of still images viewed rapidly after one after the other.
Film also deals with the persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon. According to the article, "History of the motion picture" by Robert Sklar, a professor of Cinema Studies at NYU states that the persistence of vision "...causes the brain to retain images cast upon the retina of the eye for a fraction of a second beyond their disappearance from the field of sight..." and the phi phenomenon "...creates apparent movement between images when they succeed one another rapidly." That is how film came to be.
The first film ever was made back in 1878 by Eadweard Muybridge. It was called The Horse In Motion. Pretty self-explanatory name. He was able to capture 12 still images of a horse in motion. His experiment paved a way for motion studies. Here is the film if you want to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEqccPhsqgA#action=share
In the end film is here today because of many technical innovations, advances in technology, and the taste for something new. Here is another video that helped me further understand the history and general information of film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsnB4iBb78o
References:
History of the motion picture by Robert Sklar
https://www.britannica.com/art/history-of-the-motion-picture
The Birth of Film: 11 Firsts in Cinema, 2011
http://www.openculture.com/2011/09/the_birth_of_film_11_firsts_in_cinema.html
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