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English doctor P.M. Roget found that seeing an object in similar positions over a rapid sequence, like this one of a horse running, resulted in the object appearing to move. In 1824, he called this “persistence of vision.” Inventors wanted to create a better way to produce the illusion of moving images from still ones.
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French premiere The first to figure it out were the French brothers Auguste and louis lumière. They held the first public showing of projected moving images in a Parisian café basement in 1895. Their combined portable camera and projector, the cinematograph, recorded “moving pictures” on a strip of celluloid film. The premiere was a hit with the paying audience and hailed the start of the moTion picTure era.
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