MOVIES

The first movies or motion pictures were made in Europe in the 1830. These were very simple. Pictures were put on a wheel and the wheel was turned very fast. It looked like the pictures were moving. Forty years later a man in AMERICA wanted some picture of a horse race. He had twenty four cameras take one picture each. These pictures were taken one after another. When these pictures were shown close together, it looked like the horse was moving.

Thomas Alfa Edison made a motion picture machine in 1893. The films were fifty feet long and the shows were very short. Only one person at a time could watch the show.

The first movies were silent pictures. Then in 1926 a pictures with music was made. In 1928 the first pictures with talking was made.

Now films are made in other countries. Also, television keeps many people at home because many movies are made for television. People also see old movies on television.