Eadward Muybridge

Soon after the invention of photography, people began to speculate what it would be like to capture moving images. Early on, the idea was pursued by scientists wishing to study motion through photography. There were several innovators around the world in the 1800s, when cinema technology began: among them Thomas Edison, Louis and Auguste Lumière, Georges Méliès, and many others. Eadward Muybridge was one of the first to use photographs to capture motion through an experiment to see if a horse ever had all four legs up off the ground at once while in a sprint, and this led to the invention of the zoopraxiscope. Another particularly innovative device was created by Thomas Edison and his assistant W.K.L. Dickinson called the Kinetoscope, which displayed a spinning series of images in a box that appeared to move when looked into. In France, the Lumière brothers specialized in the manufacturing of photographic equipment, and managed to create an early motion picture camera and projector called the “cinématographe”. With this new …show more content…
Like Buster Keaton, they both used physical comedy and performed whimsical stunts and tricks for the camera and big screen. He differs from Keaton in that he incorporates parts of his childhood into the films that he did, being born in London, especially in the film The Kid. For example, “street lamps are modelled on those in the London of his youth and the gas meter takes shillings rather than quarters” (Cousins, p. 72). Chaplin often incorporated emotional feeling into his performances, stimming from his childhood of living in an orphanage when he was young. Rather than just relying on comedy and humor, he seamlessly incorporated dramatic storytelling into his