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Chronophotography and the inorganic (3)

The appearance of paper filmstrips on the market in 1888 yielded the final methodological development of Marey’s visualization of movement. He substituted a roll of the paper film for his glass plate and constructed a film-feeding mechanism that stopped the film for an instant behind the lens long enough for an image to be made, then pulled it onto a roller. Now every time the lens was demasked by one of the slots in the disk shutter an image would be made on a different and ongoing part of the film.

It was this camera Edison borrowed for his Kinetoscope, and the addition of a better film feeding mechanism to it allowed the Lumière brothers to patent their cinematographe and project the first motions pictures to a paying public in 1895.