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Flickers
Film
Motion picture cameras were developed for the obvious purpose of capturing events as they happened. Since then, the field of photography has never been the same.
The first practical movie camera was the manually operated Kinetograph, developed by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, a native of Scotland, and an employee of Thomas Edison. By the mid-1890s, the movie camera had become a practical reality.
Between 1909 and 1911, Polish inventor Kaziemierz Pròszynski patented the Aeroscope, which required no hand cranking and resulted in smoother photography.
Several years later, in 1923, Kodak introduced16-mm film stock, reducing the cost of film and making motion photography more accessible to the general public.
Following World War Two, more compact home movie cameras became available, allowing consumers to capture and preserve the people, places and events in their lives with relative ease. 
While most professional movie film remained at 35-mm in width, home movies were done with 8- or 16-mm film with exposed film sent away to commercial developers. On return of the processed film, consumers could then display their work with projectors by Bell and Howell, Bolex, Kodak and others.
The drawback, of course, was the delay between the original event and being able to view it on screen. Something new was needed, and that led to the invention of the video recorder using magnetic tape. In contrast to home movies, videotape could also capture sound.