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Thaumatrope
A device created by english physician John Ayerton Paris, this device was created to show two images merge into one -
Photography
Animation on film was only possible because of invention of photography, by Joseph Niépce. -
Phenakistoscope
The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc's reflection in a mirror. -
Zoetrope
by William Horne, It consisted of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. As it would spin, the user looked through the slits at the pictures across. -
Praxinoscope
was invented in France, by Charles-Émile Reynaud. This improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors, placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. -
Motion Pictures In America
America’s premier inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, developed a motion picture camera (the kinetograph) and a projector (the kinetoscope) -
Mottion Pictures In france
Auguste and Louis Lumiere were French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector.
In 1895, they created the film “Workers Leaving the Factory” which is considered the first motion picture. -
Birth Of Narritve Flms
By the turn of the century, the subject of motion pictures evolved towards narrative stories. The Edison 1902 film, “Fun in a Bakery Shop” was an early example of movie special effects. -
Geogres Melies
In 1902, Georges Melies made his most famous film, “A Trip to the Moon.” The film included the celebrated scene in which a spaceship hits the man in the moon in the eye. It was loosely based on works by Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. -
Emile Cohl
In 1908, Cohl created “Fantasmagorie.” This animation was created using an illuminated glass plate for his table while drawing black lines on paper. The end result was printed in negative to intentionally give the feel of a chalkboard.