Flickering,
slightly jerky movement.
Black
and white images.
Workers
Leaving the Lumiere Factory.
Just
46 seconds of watching...workers leaving the Lumiere factory!
Doesn't
sound like a blockbuster motion picture, does it? But this little
movie was the talk of the town (to be precise, Paris) when more than
200 invited guests were shown the world's first “moving pictures.”
Brothers
Auguste and Louis Lumiere ran a photography business. They thought
the big news of the meeting held on this date in 1895 would be the
color photography (stills) – but people were even more amazed by
the moving pictures. The illusion of movement is created, of course,
by the rapid succession of still images – our brains blends all the
stills into a seemingly seamless moving picture.
Soon
after this private screening, the Lumiere brothers began making short
films that the public could pay to see—and the rest is history!
(Here is a more detailed explanation.)
Play
with the illusion of motion by making a flip book. Here's how.
- You can deal with the science of animation with a science fair project, too.
- Or have fun with a computer program that makes animation easier than ever before, such as ABC Ya's animation program, or Flux Time.
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on this date:
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