I wish I would've taken a cinematography class in college. I would love to learn more about the art.
Cinematography is really fascinating! The word comes from two Greek words, "kinema" and "graphein".
Interesting! How does it work?
Well, there are actually two types. Electronically or by using an image sensor, which uses film. Which would you like to hear about?
I'm really into movies and film.
I like traditional film based cinematography too! It's an intricate process where a series of invisible latent images are captured on film stock, then later are chemically developed into a visible image. 
That's so interesting. Do you know who came up with the process?
well as for entertainment purposes and mass communication.
History.
History Precursors.
In the 1830s, moving images were produced on revolving drums and disks, with independent invention by Simon von Stampfer (stroboscope) in Austria, Joseph Plateau (phenakistoscope) in Belgium, and William Horner (zoetrope) in Britain.
In 1845, Francis Ronalds invented the first successful camera able to make continuous recordings of the varying indications of meteorological and geomagnetic instruments over time. The cameras were supplied to numerous observatories around the world and some
Cinematography
Cinematography (from ancient greek κίνημα, "kìnema" "movement" and γράφειν, "gràphein" "to write") is the science or art of motion-picture photography and filming either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as film stock.
Cinematographers use a lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sensor or light-sensitive material inside a movie camera. These exposures are created sequentially and