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First Motion-Picture Machine-August 31：美国历史上的今天

内容提要：自从爱迪生发明第一部电影放映机以来，电影放映技术在不断地更新与改变。电影经过了无声到有声，从只能一个人看到所有人可以一起看，放映的时间也由短逐渐变长。

Thomas Edison received a patent 专利 for his kinetoscope 电影放映机 on August 31, 1887. It was a machine for viewing moving pictures. Edison had hoped to combine his new invention with the phonograph 留声机, which he had invented 10 years earlier. He thought that people would like to watch moving pictures that went along with the sound. He was not able to make them work together. The kinetoscope, however, was a popular attraction by itself. A person looked through peepholes 窥视孔 in a box-like machine and saw pictures in action. On of the first films made showed a man sneezing 打喷嚏.

A problem with this invention was that only one person at a time could view the moving pictures. By 1891, Edison had invented a projector 放映机 that showed the film on a screen. Many people could watch together.

In 1893, Edison built a motion-picture studio. He made over 300 silent films. Most of them were short. That was because the pictures flickered 闪烁, or fluttered 颤动, a lot. It was hard for people to watch more than 10 minutes at a time.

The first films were mostly of real events. They would show famous people walking somewhere, cars on a street, burning houses, and other news stories. Then comedies and short dramas were made.

Edison s movie studio closed in 1918. By then other companies were also making films. Better cameras were made. Sound was added. Then color came along. Today, movies are among the most popular forms of entertainment.

本文内容选自上海外语教育出版社引进出版的《听读美国小故事》第8册（8月）。如需购买，可到当当、亚马逊、京东等网上书城去看看。

最后更新：2017-10-07 22:51:15

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