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Director Steven Spielberg and camera operator Michael Chapman film next to a large mechanical shark on the set of the 1975 movie Jaws.

Eadweard Muybridge

The Lumiere brothers' Cinematographe, a vintage wooden-framed device with a boxy projector and film reel, set up for film projection using a magic lantern lamphouse.

Diagram of a film projector

Sensitization of photographic emulsions

Steps in a blue-screen effect

Heinz Eisinger, a Foley artist, presses two coconut shells on a cluttered worktable, surrounded by props, as he watches a monitor in a Hamburg studio.

Intermittent Geneva movement

The video thumbnail image shows a Foley artist using a coffee grinder to create sound.

Learn about a virtual slow-motion camera that can capture photons or light particles moving through space which may be useful in medical imaging, in industrial or scientific use or even in consumer photography

Steamboat Willie, 1928

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