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Film timeline
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Leland Stanford’s Bet
$25,000 bet asking if all hooves of a horse left the ground when they run. -
first hand-held box camera
George Eastman introduced the first hand-held box camera -
Kinetoscope
Thomas Edison built the Kinetoscope and it shows 5 second videos. -
first motion picture studio
Edison and Dickson needed films for their machines before they could exploit them commercially. -
Fred Ott’s Sneeze
Fist copyrighted film in USA -
kinetoscope parlor
Kinetoscope parlor opened in New York.
inspired by Edison’s new device, found ways to project films on a screen -
Cinematograph
effectively functioned as camera, projector and printer all in one. -
world’s first public film screening
The showing of approximately ten short films lasting only twenty minutes in total was held in the basement lounge of the Grand Cafe in Paris. -
zoopraxiscope
a machine for projecting slides onto a distant surface. -
Zoetrope
based on the same principle as the phenakistiscope, but is cylindrical in shape -
Phenakistiscope
A cardboard disc with slots around the edge, and drawings between the slots, was spun on an axle in front of a mirror. -
A trip to the moon
The first Si-Fi movie. -
The Great Train Robbery
Used the first dummy in film, had a close up shot of a robber shooting at the screen. -
the iroquois theater fire
This fire is the reason there are so much saftey rules for theaters. -
Nickelodeons
Nickelodeons were cheaper and they opened films to a mass audience.
