Part one of term paper
The first person to ever successfully photograph motion was Edweard Muybridge in 1877. The way he accomplished this was by lining up 20 cameras in a row. He then had a horse run past them. The horse would trip strings that were attached to each camera. This caused the camera to take a picture of the horse. This resulted in 20 pictures of ...

Part two of term paper
... eating breakfast which was, of course, Auguste Lumiere's daughter. The movie was quite simple with three characters, the mom, the dad, and the baby. The Dad would feed the baby and the mom would wipe her chin. After the baby takes a few spoonfuls of her cereal, the movie ends. This first movie was received with an enthusiastic round of applause. This pioneered the movie business. From this humble beginning came movies with actual plots. Of course, they got a bit longer than this first minute ...