When you sit down to think about the origin of motion pictures in film, no specific person comes to mind as there could perhaps be many. However, there are multiple important people whose contributions helped create what we have and know today. These significant figures in film history are George Eastman of 'Eastman Kodak fame', the Lumière brothers in 1895 who developed a practical movie camera, Thomas Edison who projected film and built an early studio, Eadweard Muybridge who in 1877 used a series of still cameras to take photos fractions of a second apart and Louis Le Prince who created Roundhay Garden Scene, a two-second movie from 1888 that survives to this day.
The film industry has gone through many eras starting with The Silent Era (1880-1920) where movies were released without synchronized sound. The talkies (1927) started not so long after that where movies started to have synchronized sound and voices of the actors. Personally my favorite time of the film industry was The rise of horror movies (1931) where “Dracula,” “Frankenstein,” “The Mummy,” “The Invisible Man,” “King Kong,” “The Bride of Frankenstein” and “The Werewolf of London” were all produced within four years of one another.
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