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The following chapters tell how men learned about vision and light, and how apparatus to record and project living realities was developed.
It is the story of the origin of the motion picture, from Adam to Edison.
IT STARTED WITH “A”
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First magic shadow show—Ancient optical studies—Chinese Shadow Plays, Japanese and English mirrors—The art-science begins with Aristotle and Archimedes, Greeks, and Alhazen, an Arab.
From any viewpoint the story of the origin of the motion picture begins with “A”. The fundamental and instinctive urge to create pictures in living reality goes all the way back to Adam. Aristotle developed the theoretical basis of the science of optics. Archimedes made the first systematic use of lenses and mirrors. Alhazen, the Arab, pioneered in the study of the human eye, a prerequisite for developing machines to duplicate requisite functions of the human eye.
Lights and shadows were made when the night and the day were made:
And God said: Be light made. And light was made.