Media forms built around a sequence of images shown in motion, as distinct from the still photograph. Belongs here: film, animation and the newsreel as media forms. Does not belong here: broadcast television, grouped under broadcast, since it is a delivery form rather than a moving-image form in this atlas's own DataBrief spine, or still photography, grouped under still image.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: History of film, Beginnings sectionQuote, Wikipedia: History of film, Beginnings section
the commercial, public screening of ten Lumiere brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895, which has generally been regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures.
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