http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/magazine/the-art-of-flying-in-the-movies.html?ref=movies

But just in case: Orville and Wilbur Wright, tinkerers and bicycle mechanics
from Dayton, Ohio, got their flying machine aloft for about 12 seconds, ushering
in the age of modern aviation. Their feat marked another milestone as well, a
signal event in the entwined histories of flight and photography. We know about
the launch of the Wright brothers’ Flyer partly because its departure from terra
firma was recorded on film, in what David McCullough, in his new biography of
the Wrights, rightly calls "one of the most historic photographs of the
century". It’s a still image, but the picture, snapped by Orville and Wilbur’s
assistant, John T. Daniels, on a tripod-mounted Grundlach Korona V camera, can
nonetheless claim a place of honor in the annals of cinema.