by Irving Fang and Ann Norris
ISBN: 1-933-01176-9When images were first projected onto a screen, the audience thought it was devilish magic. Movies began when the hooves of a trotting horse tripped the shutters of 24 still cameras. When the first paying audience at a motion picture saw ocean waves coming toward them, those sitting in the front were sure they were going to get soaked.
From its start, the movies
have startled us. They have fascinated us. We cannot get enough of them.
Many of us know more about movie stars than we do about anyone outside—or
maybe even inside—our own families.
It would not be too hard to find someone who has never read a book. It would
be much harder to find any adult anywhere in the world who has never seen a film.
Movies, seventh in the 11-volume series, The Story of Communication, takes us from devices leading up to movies to the digital revolution.
