First Motion Picture Camera

It was basically a device with three functions in one.

First motion picture camera. The first all metal cine camera was the bell howell standard of 1911 12. In 1888 thomas edison commissioned his assistant dickson to invent the kinetograph a primitive motion picture camera that combined viewing technology with motion picture recording. What the lumières invented was special however. One or both edges of the film are lined with.

Within the camera the unexposed film is housed in a totally dark chamber called the forward magazine. Thomas edison and his assistant william kennedy laurie dickson are largely regarded as the inventors of the first motion picture camera. French brothers auguste and louis lumière are often credited with inventing the first motion picture camera although others had developed similar inventions at around the same time. It combined a portable motion picture camera film processing unit and a projector called the cinematographe.

Instead it was william kennedy laurie dickson working in the west orange new jersey laboratories of the edison company who created what was widely regarded as the first motion picture camera. The first motion picture shot in the united states 1888 ce 1894 ce in 1894 thomas edison of menlo park now edison new jersey formally introduced the kinetograph the first practical moving picture camera and the kinetoscope a hand cranked single viewer lighted box to display the resulting films.