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Photography developed into film-making during the Victorian era
Presenter Adam Hart-Davis shares an example of some silver nitrate paper being used to take a 'photo' of a leaf. Queen Victoria was the first British monarch to have a photograph taken. The Victorians enjoyed taking photographs of many things, especially people, but with the invention of celluloid and the mutoscope, they were able to make 'moving pictures'. In 1895, the Lumiere Brothers invented the cinematograph to project films for large audiences.
