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Cinema >> 1550 Gerolamo Cardano applies the biconvex lens to a Camera Obscura and obtains a sharper, clearer image.
>> Watch video. Tent camera obscura. 1559 Giovanni Battista della Porta publishes Magiae Naturalis, in which he describes a Camera Obscura with precision.
In the 17th century, shadow puppetry shows reach Western Europe. | Photography It begins in the 1820s >> | Amateur Film It begins in the 1890s >> | Television and video It begins in the 1860s >> | Sound It begins in the 1850s >> |
