The biography Of The Motion Picture Camera (1947)

The biography Of The Motion Picture Camera

Glimpses at the origin of the motion picture, the contribution of Muybridge, Edison, and Lumière, and fragments of the screen's first "epics."

The 1947 film The Biography of the Motion Picture Camera is an art documentary produced by Les Films du Compas and Roger Leenhardt, and narrated by Tony Kraber. The film traces the history of the development of motion pictures from the first camera to Edison’s kinetoscope and the Lumiere brothers’ cinematograph. The film begins with a brief recap of photographing still simple subjects.

“School of the Successive Pose” (01:51)
Karl von Vierordt’s sphygmograph (03:20)
galloping horse (05:45)
Kodak film (10:15)
Thomas Edison (12:09)
kinetoscope works (13:37)
Louis Lumiere (15:49)
short and simple motion pictures (17:50)