Cinema is an aglomerade of images that are projected continuosly and quickly, which induce human mind to think  it has movement. Until the existence of all the knowledge and technology necessary to cinema's birth, there were lots of discoverys and inventions that allowed cinema to rise.

The handshadows images are primitive ways that allow to represent people and animals in movement.

The first public shows of animated images were made by shadows. These represenations consisted in project dole's shadows that, moved by persons, were between light and a piece of paper.

In the beggining, the Dark Chamber was used in the observation of sun eclipses. Not more than a room where sun light entered trough a small orifice creating in opose wall an inverted image. In the seventeenth century that chamber has been allowed to move with the introduction of lents in a side of a box, and in the other side there was a piece of glass to visualize the image.

The Magic Lantern was the first slide projectors ever. The first public image was in Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae, of Athanasius Kircher in the end of the 17^th century. Images were painted in glass and they were projected in walls.

But the inventions and knowledge achieved in the 19^th century were of a great importance. In that century it was discovered the 'persistance of vision' fenomen. Through this, human mind was induced to interpretate the fast images as a movement. In 1839, Louis Daguerre developed a system that allow to print photos in metal tables, making it comercially possible. Daguerre's method was allie with the zoopraxiscope of Eadweard Muybridge that allowed the fast projection of images printed in a rotative glass in a monitor given the illusion of movement. Also in this century were born the electricity and the celuder, which would be help helpfull to the creation of the film.

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