Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1917 — First Motion Picture. [ARTICLE]

First Motion Picture.

The motion picture is more than fifty years old. If we understand by that term any device for producing the optical illusion of moving Objects. These toys were called by various names, such as thaumatrope, zoetrope, stroboscope, —phenaklstoscope, sterescopic cabinet, klnematoscope, etc. The first exhibition of photographic motion pictures was made by Henry Heyl, in Philadelphia, in 1870.