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== History of Motion Pictures as a Medium ==

== History of Motion Pictures as a Medium ==

=== Invention of the Mechanical Technique ===

=== Invention of the Mechanical Technique ===

[[Image:LouisLePrinceFirstFilmEver.JPG|right|thumb|A frame of '''Roundhay Garden Scene''' by the French inventor Louis Le Prince, is the world's first film, it was shot in 1888 in Roundhay, England.]]

[[Image:LouisLePrinceFirstFilmEver.JPG|right|thumb|A frame of '''Roundhay Garden Scene''' by the French inventor Louis Le Prince, is the world's first film; it was shot in 1888 in Roundhay, England.]]

Motion pictures (often called "film" or "films" for short) began in 1867 with the invention of the ''zoopraxiscope'' (from the [[Greece|Greek]] ''zoô'' I am living, ''praxis'' what one does, and ''scopoô'' I am watching) by William Lincoln.<ref name=mpgen>[http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm The History of the Motion Picture] by About.com</ref> This device used the rapid-sequence-of-photographs technique. Of far more practical value was [[Thomas Edison]]'s ''kinetoscope''<ref name=Kinetoscope>[http://inventors.about.com/od/kstartinventions/a/Kinetoscope.htm The Kinetoscope] by About.com</ref> (literally, "I watch things move"), which took a rapid sequence of photographs on a single very long roll of film and projected them just as rapidly for a single viewer. Edison would go on to perfect a device called the Vitascope<ref name=Vitascope>[http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledisonvitascope.htm The Vitascope] by About.com</ref> that allowed the exhibition of such a picture to a group of persons.

Motion pictures (often called "film" or "films" for short) began in 1867 with the invention of the ''zoopraxiscope'' (from the [[Greece|Greek]] ''zoô'' I am living, ''praxis'' what one does, and ''scopoô'' I am watching) by William Lincoln.<ref name=mpgen>[http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm The History of the Motion Picture] by About.com</ref> This device used the rapid-sequence-of-photographs technique. Of far more practical value was [[Thomas Edison]]'s ''kinetoscope''<ref name=Kinetoscope>[http://inventors.about.com/od/kstartinventions/a/Kinetoscope.htm The Kinetoscope] by About.com</ref> (literally, "I watch things move"), which took a rapid sequence of photographs on a single very long roll of film and projected them just as rapidly for a single viewer. Edison would go on to perfect a device called the Vitascope<ref name=Vitascope>[http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledisonvitascope.htm The Vitascope] by About.com</ref> that allowed the exhibition of such a picture to a group of persons.