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爱迪生发明电影
1888年，爱迪生发明留声机后，他将注意力转放在电影上。「我正在实验一种专供眼睛用的器具，就像留声机是专供耳朵用的器具」他说道。他的实验结果就是电影摄影机
(Kinetograph)及电影视镜(Kinetoscope：通过窥视孔，在灯光照明下，放大观看幻灯片的装置)。
第一部获得版权保护的影片是由爱迪生公司内的一位名叫佛莱得奥特
(Fred Ott)
的员工负责担纲演出，而影片的内容则是奥特打喷嚏。看看左侧的「爱迪生电影放映机所录制的打喷嚏」(Edison
Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze)并观察自1894年以来，电影的改变有多大。
爱迪生所面对的问题是好的电影胶卷不易取得。1893年，伊斯曼柯达(Eastman
Kodak)开始供应电影胶卷，因而使得爱迪生得以加速拍摄新电影的脚步。还有什么能够胜过这件事？
In 1888, after Edison invented the phonograph, he turned his attention to motion pictures. "I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear," he said. The result of his experiments was the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a peephole motion picture viewer).
The first film ever copyrighted shows an employee of Edison's, Fred Ott, who is pretending to sneeze. Take a look at the "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" and see how far film has come since 1894.
One problem Edison faced was that good motion picture film was not available. In 1893, Eastman Kodak began supplying motion picture film stock, making it possible for Edison to step up the production of new motion pictures. What could top this?
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