Wired.com has a an interesting article tody, 121 years after the first patent was filed for film by a 65 year-old clergyman in New Jersey. Its actually pretty interesting, the film we use in cameras today (remember film?) has remained largly unchanged for 100 years.

here is the link
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/05/dayintech_0502