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Horse Races
Eaweard Muybridge was born April 9, 1830, he was an English Photographer. At the age of 20, he emigrated to America, first to new york, as a bookseller, then to San Fransisco.Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography -
Vaudevilles
A vaudevill is a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance. Vaudville was popular in the United States and in Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s.A typical vaudeville performance is made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill -
Cinematography
Cinematography is he art of making motion pictures. Cinematography finds uses in many fields of science and business as well as for entertainment purposes and mass communication. -
The Great Train Robbery
in 1903, an employee of Thomas Edison, Edwin Porter, created the first U.S. narrative film. The movie included 14 scenes and lasted 12 minutes. It was a real epic by the standards of the day.The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent short Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter, a former Edison Studios cameraman. -
Nickelodeons
The nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures. Usually set up in converted storefronts, these small, simple theaters charged five cents for admission and flourished from about 1905 to 1915. -
Motion Pictures Patent Company
The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and terminated 10 years later in 1918 after conflicts within the industry, was a trust of all the major American film companies -
Kinetoscope
Kinetoscope was an early motion picture device which the images were viewed through a peepwhole.The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector but introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video, by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter.
