From still photographs to moving pictures

When the first photographs were taken, in the middle of the nineteenth century, no-one could have imagined that this laborious process would eventually lead to recording movement, and the creation of moving pictures. In this section you can find out about the stages of development from the first grainy photographs to the moment when the cinematograph was revealed to the world.

First we'll look at the earliest pioneers of photography. Click on to the next page to meet them.