Ever since the first photograph was taken in 1826, photographers tried to imagine ways to create a moving picture. The concept was simple enough – take a sequence of photographs, or drawings, of a ...

Just how moving were those first “moving pictures”? By 1895, when movies made their commercial debut, the public had pretty much accepted photography’s claims of factual truth as compared with ...

One year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious ...