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phenakistiscope was introduced
A cardboard disk with slots around the edge and drawing in between slots, was spun on an axle in front of the mirror -
zoetrope was invented
based on same principle as the phenakistiscope -
Leland Stanfords bet
He bet $25,000 that all 4 hooves of a horse level the ground simultaneously, to prove this a 50 foot long shed was constructed containing 12 cameras side by side and he was correct, the man who helped him name was Eadward Muybridge. -
Eadward Muybridge invented the zoopraxiscope
This is a machine to project slides on distant surface -
Cinématographe camera
The first film shot with the Cinématographe camera is La Sortie de l'usine -
first hand-held box camera invented by George Eastmen
mad popular photography possible in 1888 -
Kinetoscope invented
The film only lasted 20 seconds, film was in a contiuous loop, is a forerunner of the projector, peepshow viewer is when a person can drop a penny in it crank it and look through viewfinder. -
Black maria
Thomas Edison built the Black Maria or the first motion picture studio near his lab in New Jersey -
First kinetoscope parlor opened in New York
For about 2 years this was highly profitable, but it was eclipsed when they found new ways to project onto the screen. -
Fred Otts sneeze
1st copyrigted film in the USA -
Cinématographe
The first film shot with it is called La Sortie de l'usine Lumière a Lyon -
Lumiere brothers have the world’s first public film screening
They showed aproximetly 10 short films lasting about 20 miniutes. -
R.W. Paul
continued to improve his camera and invented a projector which began by showing copies of Acres' films from the previous year. He sold his machines rather than leasing them and as a result speeded up the spread of the film industry in Britain as well as abroad supplying filmmakers and exhibitors which included George Méliès. -
A trip to the moon
trip to the moonA comic fiction story about a group of scientist traveling to the moon in a space capsule -
Great train Robbery
Great train robbery Directed, photographed and edited by Edwin S Porter, filmed on various locations in new Jersey, is 11 minutes long, 14 scenes. -
"Rescued by Rover".
Cecil Hepworth produced, with Lewin Fitzhamon "Rescued by Rover". A charming film in which Hepworth, his wife, child and dog, star.
