Movies

Dictionary.com defines movies as motion pictures which are a series of uninterrupted photographs of moving objects, taken by a camera designed specially for this use. They are then put into a projector which throws them onto the movie screen at such a speed they look to be moving naturally.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/motion+picture

The history of animation is a long one of all its own although it is seen throughout movies made by Disney and Warner Brothers. Animation is the art of drawing pictures in sequence and making slight changes to each picture so that when the pages are flipped it looks as the object is in motion.http://www.digitalmediafx.com/Features/animationhistory.html

In 1895 a group of engineers, scientists and inventors from both Europe and the U.S create cameras and projectors that will photograph and display movies. Commonly accepted as the inventors of motion pictures are: Thomas Edison, William Kennedy and Laurie Dickson of the U.S and August Lumiere and Louis Lumiere of France. The Lumiere’s were the first to show films to a paying audience; on December 28, 1895 in France. The first movies shown in the U.S. were scenes from the Broadway hit A Milk White Flag on April 23, 1896. The scenes were shown on Edison’s Vitascope.

Movies were originally part of vaudeville shows and were 10 to 20 minutes long, but usually did not relate to the show. This was the way motion pictures were commonly seen until 1906 when nickelodeons became popular. Since that time motion pictures/movies have became a prime source of entertainment all over the world.http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~mfreeman/resources.php?content_id=14