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Cinema
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History and Early Development
The theoretical groundwork for cinema was established across the 19th century through advancements in optics, persistence of vision studies, and photography. Key precursors include the zoetrope and the praxinoscope.
The accepted genesis of moving pictures is often attributed to the work of various inventors working concurrently in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The first commercially successful projection systems involved perforated celluloid film stock. In 1895, the [Lumière brothers](/entries/lumiere-brother…