https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5ac98102-3659-43fa-9445-c72fb51079e9 View our Amazon store here: https://amzn.to/3XQHsVD Produced by the U.S. Navy, this vintage documentary "Origins of the Motion Picture" explains the history of the motion picture beginning with optical and persistence of vision devices that were invented before the motion picture including the praxiscope, zoetrope and the zoopraxiscope. Pioneers of photography such as Lou Daguerre and Thomas Edison are featured. Made in collaboration with the Library of Congress (:26). The Great White Fleet of the US Navy appears (1:07). Shots follow of Theodore Roosevelt (1:24) boarding the USS Kearsarge. Roosevelt addresses supporters (1:31). The development of the motion picture enabled larger audiences for presidential campaigns. Early footage follows of the Vanderbilt cup of 1903 (1:46). The narrator explains the early history of storytelling beginning with cave paintings (2:14). Egyptian etchings follow (2:23). The renowned Mona Lisa is pictured (2:57). A sketch documents the camera obscura (3:02). Al Hasan is depicted in animation (3:18). Giambattista della Porta's (3:25) use of the camera obscura is discussed. Athanasius Kircher (3:49) and his theater follow (3:49). Images from within detail magic lanterns (4:30). The Peter Mark Rogers Thesaurus is featured (4:56). On Christmas in 1824, Roget addressed the Royal Society over peculiar optical illusions (5:14). The invention known as the Wonder Turner created by Dr. John Aryton Paris (5:17) is displayed. Belgium scientist Joseph Plateau (5:38) in 1829 developed an early stroboscopic device (5:42). An example shows the invention at work (5:48). He later developed the phenakistiscope; another animation device (6:08). Austrian physicist Von Stamfer presented the stroboscope (6:17). An artist crafts an action strip for the zoetrope (7:05). The praxinoscope (7:05) was created by Charles Emile Reynaud.  Franz von Uchatius (7:22) devised a lantern employing the animation disks. This produced the first motion pictures (7:35) projected on a screen. Louis Daguerre (7:40) discovered a method of recording images using chemical reactions (7:48). The Talbot type developed by William Talbot is discussed (7:56). Philadelphia inventor brother’s Langenheim impressed positive prints on glass plates bringing history a step closer to the needs of the motion picture. Leland Stanford (8:44) engaged photographer Eadweard Muybridge (8:56) in 1872 to photograph Stanford's farm. John Isaac's and Leland later experimented with 24 cameras (9:15) to capture the movement of a horse. Muybridge’s 1880 projector is featured (9:40). The projected images appear first shown to the San Francisco Art Association (9:49). Etienne Jules Marais (10:21) developed a photographic gun (10:38). The New Jersey laboratory (10:48) where Thomas Edison (10:50) perfected the talking photograph follows. He makes a comment on the instrument (11:14). Edison developed a machine similar to the phonograph (11:32). Images retrieved from the invention are pictured (11:47). His perforator follows (12:37). Edison purchased nitrocellulose from George Eastman (12:49). Eastman would go on to develop Eastman Kodak Company. The strip kinetograph; a very early movie camera, is put to use (13:10). A negative is pictured (13:59). The actual 1889 motion picture follows (14:14). Edison's Black Maria was opened in West Orange, New Jersey (14:28). William Kennedy Dickson (15:03) delivers an impression on the Black Maria. One of the first sound motion pictures (15:34) features a violist playing as two men twirl. Film spins through the peep show (15:57). The first copyrighted motion picture (16:17) follows. Frames of the film were photographed onto a piece of paper (16:22) and sent to the copyright office (16:31). Motion pictures were shown on Broadway first as part of the theater (17:04). Newspaper clippings advertises the vitascope (17:10). The vitascope follows (17:14). Cameras and projectors were quickly developed (17:24). The Jenkins camera (17:28) and the Chicago Recording Scale Company's camera are featured (17:45). The French Lumiere cinematographe (17:55) camera projector follows. The American mutograph camera (18:12) made photographs for the mutoscope; the competitor to Edison's invention (18:17). The inside of the machine follows (18:35). Film from 1897 shows Pope Leo the 13th (18:42) in Rome. Newsreel footage captures US troops (19:04) arriving in Cuba. Marines from the USS Brooklyn return home (19:12). Footage from 1897 (19:34) shows an early military training film. The US's first submarine; USS Holland from 1903 appears (19:56). 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