LET THERE BE LIGHT! THE BIRTH OF FILMS (to 1899)

Not on Mubi: Liverpool Scenes (Promio), A Street in Tokyo (Lumiere bros). Japanese Acrobats (Dickson) and the first cricketing film Prince Ranjitsinhji Practising Batting at the Nets

Cinema has deep roots, nourished across the world over millennia.

CHRONOLOGY
pre 30,000 BC – Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave paintings, including some which give impression of animals moving
c. 3200 BC – An earthen bowl found in Shahr-i Sokhta, Iran, has five images of a goat painted along the sides. This is believed to be an example of early animation.
c. 500 BC – Mo-Ti, a Chinese philosopher, ponders the phenomenology of...