Since motion pictures were invented, audiences have loved how they tell stories. Movies enabled people to travel the world vicariously, and experience tragedy, love and nearly every other emotion.

Celebrity was a fresh concept at the beginning of the last century, as the movies introduced the world to a new kind of famous person: pretend heroes and ingénues glamorized on the big screen and the ...

The fascination with slow motion photography has a long history — about as long as the history of photography itself. The story goes that in 1872, American tycoon Leland Stanford enlisted Eadweard ...

Discovering the trick of panning to stop motion was one of the most thrilling stages of his early photography, Jim Richardson says. Get his pro tips. 7 min read Contributing editor Jim Richardson is a ...

Visually speaking, we live in the iPhone age. The bulky and expensive Handycams of the 1980s (no longer quite so handy) have given way to smartphones, tablets and YouTube. If history is any guide, ...

The world of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) can be a murky realm, filled with animal outtakes, mind-boggling illusions and never-ending moving portraits of human gaffs. Since the days of ...