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First Motion-Picture Machine-August 31：美國曆史上的今天

內容提要：自從愛迪生發明第一部電影放映機以來，電影放映技術在不斷地更新與改變。電影經過了無聲到有聲，從隻能一個人看到所有人可以一起看，放映的時間也由短逐漸變長。

Thomas Edison received a patent 專利 for his kinetoscope 電影放映機 on August 31, 1887. It was a machine for viewing moving pictures. Edison had hoped to combine his new invention with the phonograph 留聲機, 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 窺視孔 in a box-like machine and saw pictures in action. On of the first films made showed a man sneezing 打噴嚏.

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 放映機 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 閃爍, or fluttered 顫動, 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.

本文內容選自上海外語教育出版社引進出版的《聽讀美國小故事》第8冊（8月）。如需購買，可到當當、亞馬遜、京東等網上書城去看看。

最後更新：2017-10-07 22:51:15

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