Movie camera is a type of photographic camera that rapidly takes a sequence of photographs, either on an image sensor or onto film stock, in order to produce a moving image to project onto a movie screen.
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10 Facts About Film camera
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In contrast to the still camera, which captures a single image at a time, by way of an intermittent mechanism, the movie camera takes a series of images; each image is a frame of film.
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An interesting forerunner to the movie Film camera was the machine invented by Francis Ronalds at the Kew Observatory in 1845.
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In 1876, Wordsworth Donisthorpe proposed a camera to take a series of pictures on glass plates, to be printed on a roll of paper film.
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In 1889, Friese-Greene took out a patent for a moving picture Film camera that was capable of taking up to ten photographs per second.
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The camera was powered by an electric motor and was capable of shooting with the new sprocketed film.
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Lumiere Domitor Film camera, owned by brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, was created by Charles Moisson, the chief mechanic at the Lumiere works in Lyon in 1894.
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The camera used paper film 35 millimeters wide, but in 1895, the Lumiere brothers shifted to celluloid film, which they bought from New-York's Celluloid Manufacturing Co.
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The righthand side of the camera is often referred to by camera assistants as "the dumb side" because it usually lacks indicators or readouts and access to the film threading, as well as lens markings on many lens models.
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The film was removed and placed back in the camera to expose the frames on the other side once the first half had been exposed.
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