The technology It has also served to register historical moments and characters. One of these devices is the filmmaker, which evolved at the end of the 19th century and today we can find it even in cell phones.
One of the first people to be Regitradas is Pope Leo XIII. And while it is not the first, statistics indicate that he is the person for more years to have been recorded.
At that time the record was done through static images, it is worth pointing to the photograph that evolved throughout the nineteenth century, after the classic painting portraits.
But the film record was a novelty.
While when we talk about the beginning of the movie, we think about the cinematographer invented by the Lumiere brothers, the registration of moving images is part of an evolution. Before there was the kinestoscope, invented by Thomas Alva Edison, among other projects.
The recording of Leo XIII, according to Xataka’s report, was shot in 1898, when the cinematographer was already being more used. The recording is attributed to William Kennedy Dickson for the Biograph company, although it is also believed that Vittorio Calcina could be, in 1896.
The recording is very simple. The Holy Father appears greeting the camera and on a walk through the Vatican Jardines. While it is not the first person to be recorded, it is believed to be the longest. The Pope was born in 1810, with the name of Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci.
The investigations also pose to other registered characters, and that they transport us to the customs of that time. By his authority, Leo XIII becomes the first Pope engraved in motion.