The film industry has a deep history despite its relatively short life. There is no singular person who can be attributed to inventing the cinema. In 1891 the Edison Company created a prototype of the Kinetoscope, allowing a person to view moving pictures. The first to present moving pictures to an audience was the Lumière brothers in 1895, using their newly invented Cinématographe. The Cinématographe was a camera, a projector and a film printer all in one.
While technology has made leaps and bounds since then, the movies wouldn’t be the same without the people in front of the camera. From Max Linder, who may have been the world’s first movie star, to Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford to the stars of today. These people are what truly draw the masses to the theater time after time.
