The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century.
Eadweard Muybridge's The Horse in Motion cabinet cards utilized the technique of chronophotography to study motion.
A frame from the Lumière brothers staged comedy film, L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895)
Georges Méliès (left) painting a backdrop in his studio
Still from The Great Train Robbery, produced by Edwin S. Porter
Cinematography is the art of motion picture photography.
Arri Alexa, a digital movie camera
Georges Méliès (left) painting a backdrop in his studio
Live recording for TV on a camera with a Fujinon optical lens.
A deep focus shot from Citizen Kane (1941): everything, including the hat in the foreground and the boy (young Charles Foster Kane) in the distance, is in sharp focus.