motion picture, history of thehistory of the medium from the
19th century to the present. Early years, 1830–1910     In 1887
in Newark, New JerseyN.J., an Episcopalian minister named
Hannibal Goodwin first used celluloid roll film developed the
idea of using celluloid as a base for photographic emulsions,
and within the year his idea had been appropriated by the . The
inventor and industrialist George Eastman, who in 1888 began to
mass-produce had earlier experimented with sensitized paper
rolls for still photography, began manufacturing celluloid roll
film for still photography in 1889 at his plant in Rochester,
New YorkN.Y. This event was crucial to the development of
cinematography: series photography such as Marey’s
chronophotography could employ glass plates or paper strip film
because it recorded events of short duration in a relatively
small number of images, but cinematography would inevitably find
its subjects in longer, more complicated events, requiring
thousands of images and therefore just the ki