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The Cinema Turns Eighty
Years Old, reduction from the 'EveningPress' (Stampa Sera), December 29 th 1975
First Part
The cinema, art of our century, was officially born the evening of December 28th
1895 in the underground of the Grand Cafè in Paris, at number 14 of Boulevard
des Capucines. The first public projection, edited by the brothers August and
Louis Lumiere, concluded a period of troubled studies and difficult. In every
part of the world, in the last years of last century, were found groups of experimenters
that were about to set the great dream, the representation of the images in movement.
The Lumi-res didn't perhaps invent anything of determinant. They had the worth
to apply the proper ones and other people's knowledges in industrial and popular
sense, removing the cinema from the curiosity of the booths and doing an universal
language of it. -A new instrument - has written the historian George Sadoul -
it doesn't already rise perfect from the mind of an inventor as Minerva from the
brain of Jupiter-. In the XIX- century magic lanterns, spectacular diorami, Chinese
shades constituted the point of departure for those people that wanted to put
together in an only equipment, the synthesis of the movement, the photo and the
projection. The photo, thanks to Niepce, Daguerre and Bayard, it was to half century
a finished fact. The electricity, that subsequently would have replaced the oil
lamps giving a bright source to the instrument of projection, allowed in public
the vision of images in great format. It had not come to stop yet and to reproduce
the movement. For two millennia the scientists and the poets had become enraged,
from Tolomeo to Lucrezio, from Newton to Plateu. This last, a Belgian physicist
lived between il1801 and 1883, defined the principle of the persistence of the
images on the retina. Plateu specified that if the images recorded by the sight
repeat him to the rhythm than at least 10 to the second, the illusion of the movement
is had (today the sonorous cinema projects at least 24 frames to the second).
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateu, from the long name and from the bright talent,
built a disk of cardboard with a certain number of little windows and with painted
figures on one of the faces. Making to turn the disk around his center and in
front a mirror, who looked trough the windows perceived the figures very bring
closer in the time to believe it animate.
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