There is no doubt that cinematography helps people to know more about themselves, their dreams and fantasies.
An International Process of Invention.
It is difficult to attribute the invention of the cinema to a single source. There was no one moment when the cinema emerged. Rather, the technology of the motion picture came about through an accumulation of contributions. These came primary from the United States, Germany, England, and France.
First, scientists realized that the human eye would perceive motion if a series of slightly different images was placed before it in rapid succession - minimally around sixteen per second. In 1832, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and Austrian geometry professor Simon Stampfer independently created the device that came to be called the Phenakistoscope. The Zoetrope, invented in 1833, contained a series of drawings on a narrow strip of paper inside a revolving drum. Similar principles were later used in films, but in the Zoetrope the same motion was simply repeated over and over. .
At those times photography was made on glass or metal without the use of negative and it was not possible to make at least sixteen frames in a single second. Only in 1839, Henry Fox Talbot introduced negatives made on paper. At about this same time, it became possible to print photographic images on glass lantern slides and project them. Not until 1878, however, did split-second exposure times become feasible.
The major contribution was made by photographer Eadweard Muybridge. He was asked by ex-governor of California Leland Stanford to find a way of photographing running horses do as to facilitate the study of their gaits. Muybredge set up a row of twelve cameras. The photos recorded one-half-second intervals of movement. Muybreage later made a lantern to project moving images, but theses were drawings copied from his photographs onto a revolving disc.
In 1882, inspired by Muybridge's work, French physiologist Etienne Jules Marey built a box-type cameras that used an intermittent mechanism to expose a series of photographs on a strip of paper film, at speeds of up to 120 frames per second.