I took a course in college in Cinematography I was trying to get into the art of motion picture but I flunked lol.
Did you ever film any movies?
Yes one of our group projects was to team up and film a short video file of our choice using image sensor.
What was the film  about?
We did a short film like documentary on a family who was poor and the father set out to make wealth it was very fun and the equipment was so good our camera was in HD so it made it look so real capturing digital memory. 
Have made any films since flunking the class?
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
"began no longer using writers ... Orson Welles quit one week before he was to appear in the film ... Bogdanovich rewrote what originally was a tough little script about Hollywood into a farcical series of precious little jokes. I tried to get out of the picture. I told him, 'Peter we had a good script but you changed it. You're locked up there in your house. You've got to get out and regain the gritty edge you showed in "Last Picture Show". But he never did.