Film History Timeline

The Phenakistoscope was Introduced

Jan 1, 1832

http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit07.htm Joseph Plateau introduced the Phenakistoscope in 1832. The Phenakistoscope used the persistence of motion to make the pictures look like they're moving.

Zoetrope was Invented

Jan 1, 1834

http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit10.htm The zoetrope was almost a toy. You could draw on it to make a "film". It was a drum-like figure.

Camera with Bellows

May 16, 1856

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Collection/Photography/PhotographicTechnology/CollectionItem.aspx?id=1908-134 The bellows camera was made by Thomas Ottewill. It was a little folding camera.

Leland Stanford's Bet

Jun 1, 1878

http://agilewriter.com/Biography/Muybridge.htm Eadweard Muybridge bet the govenor of California about a horse, and how the horse can run with all his legs in the air.

Eadward Muybridge Invented the Zoopraxiscope

Jan 1, 1882

http://infostory.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/moving-pictures-zoopraxiscope/ Muybridge demonstrated a devise that projected pictures to make them look like the object was moving called, the Zoopraxiscope.

George Eastman introduced the FIrst Hand-Held Box Camera

Jan 1, 1888

http://www.kodaksefke.nl/kodak-original-1888.html The first hand held camera eas invented. It was called the 'Kodak camera'.

Dickson Invents the Kinetograph

Aug 24, 1891

http://inventors.about.com/od/kstartinventions/a/Kinetoscope_2.htm The Kinetograph was filed and patented in 1891.

Black Maria

Dec 14, 1892

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html This was the first movie production studio.

Fred Ott's Sneeze was made in the "Black Maria"

Jan 4, 1894

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/07/fred-otts-sneeze-january-1894/ Fred Ott sneezed. You could watch it through a kinetoscope.

First Kinetoscope open parlor in New York

Apr 14, 1894

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html The first "movie theater" was opened.

Louis Lumiere Made first Motion Picture Camera

Jan 1, 1895

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm Lumiere made the first motion picture camera. The camera was called the "Cinematographe".

Lumiere Bros. first public screening of a film ever.

Dec 28, 1895

http://www.alchemists.com/visual_alchemy/lumiere.html The Lumiere bros. were the first to show a public screening of a show in the world.

Thomas Edison invents the kinetoscope.

Aug 31, 1897

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist.html Thomas Edison invented the kinetoscope. It was a projector type item that used rolls of film to put a "movie" in an eyehole so people can look through and see.

A Trip to the Moon

Oct 4, 1902

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/29935%7C0/A-Trip-to-the-Moon.html This film was probably the most popular film of its time.

The Great Train Robbery is Filmed

Nov 16, 1903

http://www.filmsite.org/grea.html This is the first actual film in the cinema world.