Invention of Photography

Why do you think we wouldn't have filmmaking without the invention of photography? Pick three of these innovations on this list and explain their historical importance and why you think it led to the invention of motion pictures.

The first infamous invention was the camera obscura, translated as "dark chamber". Whenever sunlight passed through the “pinhole” of the camera obscura and into the chamber, it projected a hazy picture of the outside world onto a wall or screen. Many greats knew about this invention it is thought to be known about for a long long time, by figures such as Aristotle and Chinese philosopher Mozi mentioned it. The second invention that helped evolve us into where we are now are dry plates. In the 1800's it was hard to invent when you weren't a rich person with the knowledge of  any chemistry whatsoever. Dry plates offered much quicker exposures, allowing cameras to present more clear capture moving objects.
The third invention I learned about that helped lead and innovate filmmaking/photography was the autochrome. People wanted colored photos and the discovery/theory of it didn't come around until 1907. The early pioneers of cinema, French brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere had found the key to their invention in a most unlikely place, the potato. They did this process by adding tiny grains of dyed potato starch to a panchromatic emulsion, they were able to produce vivid, painterly images.

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