EOTO Technology Presentations

 Blog #5 

                                                The start of movies 

    During our Each One Teach One presentations, I knew about all of the technologies that everyone had mentioned, but not the in depth details of it all. It was nice to learn more about the impacts and creation of topics like Netflix, social media, and even carrier pigeons. One topic of discussion that caught my eye was the start of movies - specifically, the creation of the Kinetoscope.

In the year 1890, William Dickenson had the idea for a machine that allowed numerous people to look through a peephole and watch moving pictures. The way Dickenson had this work was by inserting pieces of film and it was passed through rapidly between an electric bulb and lens. While this is going on, the person using the kinetoscope views the peephole. A man riding on a horse in a race was the first motion picture film put into the kinetoscope. 

Thomas Edison also helped with the creation of the kinetoscope, but both of the men did not think it would go as far as it did. After the release in the United States in 1984, it had created an immense sensation not only in New York City, but everywhere. Europe had sold the majority and had formed the basis of the first apparatus used to project motion picture film.