Motion Picture Camera

A motion picture camera is a type of photographic camera that rapidly captures a sequence of photographs onto film or an image sensor to produce a moving image. The groundwork was laid by Eadweard Muybridge, who photographed a running horse with a row of synchronized still cameras in 1878, and by Etienne-Jules Marey, whose 1882 chronophotographic gun was the first device to capture a sequence of moving images on a single plate using a mechanical shutter. Working cameras that recorded motion onto a continuous strip of film followed between 1888 and 1891 from Louis Le Prince, William Friese-Greene, Thomas Edison's laboratory and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson's perforated-film Kinetograph, and commercially viable combined camera-and-projector systems followed in the early 1890s from the Lumiere brothers and Kazimierz Proszynski.