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Stone Age movies revealed
posted by
Michael Zoldessy
on
July 3, 2012 at 10:45 am
For all those cinemas claiming they were the first “movie theater” it may be time to give up that distinction. Archeologists in France have discovered cave paintings that use animation effects to convey movement. Seen in succession, these images provide a movie-like experience.
Read more in Discovery News.
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In the black and white intro to “THIS IS CINERAMA”, it seems to me, I remember Lowel Thomas showing cave paintings like those mentioned above in his talk about the history of motion pictures, that was in 1952!