At the turn of the century, the principles which delineated the capture and reproduction of both static and moving images were well known. The science and the practice of photography were soundly based and photographs were a feature of everyday life. Cinematography had been established in the 1890s and was progressing rapidly. The Lumiere Brothers had become the first persons to give a public exhibition of moving pictures, at the Grand Cafe in Paris on 28 December 18951, at which an admission fee had been charged, and soon afterwards, on 20 February 1896, their films had been shown at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London. Also in 1896, the first film production unit in the world had been founded by George Melies. His films were to be considered classics of cinematography. In one of these, the famous 'Journey to the Moon', trick photography was used for the first time. By the end of the century, many different cameras and projectors, using a variety of film gauges, were on the market and cinemas had opened in numerous large towns in several countries.

Inspec keywords: cinematography; image motion analysis

Other keywords: static images; moving images; cinematography; photography

Subjects: Optical, image and video signal processing