page_title: Movie camera
section_title: Multiple cameras
hierarchical_section_title: Movie camera / Technical details / Multiple cameras
caption_attribution_description: Illustration of the camera mechanism for the Cineorama balloon simulation, 1900 Paris Exposition
context_page_description: The movie camera, film camera or cine-camera is a type of photographic camera which takes a rapid sequence of photographs on an image sensor or on a film. In contrast to a still camera, which captures a single snapshot at a time, the movie camera takes a series of images; each image constitutes a "frame". This is accomplished through an intermittent mechanism. The frames are later played back in a movie projector at a specific speed, called the frame rate. While viewing at a particular frame rate, a person's eyes and brain merge the separate pictures to create the illusion of motion.
  Since the 2000s, digital movie cameras began to exceed the use of film-based movie cameras.
context_section_description: Multiple cameras may be placed side-by-side to record a single angle of a scene and repeated throughout the runtime. The film is then later projected simultaneously, either on a single three-image screen (Cinerama) or upon multiple screens forming a complete circle, with gaps between screens through which the projectors illuminate an opposite screen. (See Circle-Vision 360°) convex and concave mirrors are used in cameras as well as mirrors.
caption: Multiple cameras to take surround images (1900 Cinéorama system, for modern version see Circle-Vision 360°
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