Film technology over time

By LR4362
  • Eadweard Muybridge

    Eadweard Muybridge

    Eadweard Muybridge who in 1877 used a series of still cameras to take photos fractions of a second apart and Louis Le Prince who created Roundhay Garden Scene, a two-second movie from 1888 that survives to this day.
  • Edison company

    Edison company

    In 1891 the Edison Company successfully demonstrated a prototype of the Kinetoscope.
  • Kinetoscope

    Kinetoscope

    The Kinetoscope enabled one person at a time to view moving picture.

  • First public demonstration

    The first public Kinetoscope demonstration took place in 1893.

  • Kinetoscope success

    By 1894 the Kinetoscope was a success, with public parlors established around the world.
  • Lumiere brothers

    Lumiere brothers

    The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in Paris, France.
  • Cinématographe

    Cinématographe

    They used a device of their own making, the Cinématographe, which was a camera, a projector and a film printer all in one.

  • color

    • By 1906, the principles of colour separation were used to produce so-called ‘natural colour’ moving images with the British Kinemacolor process, first presented to the public in 1909.