Motion Picture

It is funny to think how far we have come from 1877 and a bet. The first motion picture was made due to a simple bet. The bet was that a horse, when running, would have all four legs in the air. The way he planned to prove this was he lined up 12 cameras to take photos one after another; what he did by doing this was he made the foundation for the motion picture. He would make the zoetrope to show that he was correct. 11 years later, in 1888, Louis Le Prince would make the first motion picture camera. Movie theaters would start to become a thing with the first one, the Nickelodeon, in 1905. Over time, movie theaters have grown to over 200,000 worldwide, and movies have become a billion-dollar industry today all because of a bet.

As someone who is working to enter the industry of motion pictures as well as someone who works in a movie theater it is so interesting to learn about a time before movies and the early day challenges that today are fixed with a button or something that makes it so easy it is forgettable. The future of movies will be to be bigger and better. The future is something that will be so interesting because movies have changed with themes. In the early days, the time of Charlie Chaplin and silent movies were the big things. It would then go to color and see the rise of spaghetti westerns where there would be the rise of Clint Eastwood. Today is a time of superheroes with Spiderman, Batman, and the Avengers being the big thing hitting new records and hitting new heights. Movies have made a lot of money and it is that good because it means these stories and themes will stay around and are impacting society.