How did the movie come about?

Movies are an "imported product" that originated in Europe. It was first produced by the Lumière brothers in France in 1895 by continuously screening photos taken continuously. In 1878, in order to make a bet with the millionaire White, Stanford, the central figure of the California plutocratic group and the railroad king, paid a large sum of money to ask the famous photographer Muebridge to help him prove that all four hooves of a running horse leave the ground at the same time.

Mubridge used 12 photosensitive plates in 12 cameras, and hired 12 assistants to control the ropes with the same number across the track, and then sent out a signal to fly the horse's hooves until the ropes broke. Each kick broke the ropes. One stick opens the lens once. Later, he used 24 more cameras to shoot according to this method, which also achieved good results.

Mubri obtained snapshots of horses galloping, and projected these continuous photos on a slide projector. The stationary horses turned into free-running galloping horses. The experiment lasted two years and cost $40,000. However, the film can only be shown for a second or two. In 1888, the Frenchman Marais invented the first movie camera. He used photosensitive tape to make a moving film for the first time.

After the film was born, it spread to our country soon. At that time, the audience discovered that this new Western invention was very similar to the ancient Chinese shadow puppet show, except that electricity was used as the light source during the screening. Therefore, people called this "moving movie" "electro-optical movie".

Later, people simplified it to "movie", perhaps just to make it easier to pronounce.