HISTORY OF CINEMA

By josephshin

  • PHENAKISTOSCOPE

    PHENAKISTOSCOPE
    A cardboard disc with slots around the edge, and drawings between the slots, was spun on an axle in front of a mirror.

  • ZOETROPE

    ZOETROPE
    The zoetrope is based on the same principle as the phenakistiscope, but is cylindrical in shape. This enabled several people at the same time to view the moving pictures - an advance over the single spectator of the earlier toy.

  • EADWARD MUYBRIDGE INVENTED THE ZOOPRAXISCOPE

    EADWARD MUYBRIDGE INVENTED THE ZOOPRAXISCOPE
    Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope, a machine for projecting slides onto a distant surface.

    The silhouette images, derived from his sequence photographs, were painted around the edge of a large glass disc

  • GEORGE EASTMAN INTRODUCED THE 1ST HAND-HELD BOX CAMERA

    GEORGE EASTMAN INTRODUCED THE 1ST HAND-HELD BOX CAMERA
    The Kodak camera with a roll of transparent film was cheap enough for all pockets and could be used by a child.

  • INVENTION OF THE KINETISCOPE

    INVENTION OF THE KINETISCOPE
    .Thomas Edison built a Kinetoscope, or peep-hole viewer.
    .Kinetoscope - a forerunner of the projector.
    .Peepshow viewer. A customer could drop a penny into the kinetoscope, turn the crank, look through the viewfinder.
    .The films lasted only 20 seconds.
    .The film was in a continuous loop
    .Run over rollers

  • THE BLACK MARIA

    THE BLACK MARIA
    .The first motion picture studio near Thomas Edison's lab in New Jersey.
    .made from
    -tarpaper shed
    -the roof opened to sky to provide enough light for photography
    .The building turned on tracks to face the sun

  • FRED OTT'S SNEEZE

    FRED OTT'S SNEEZE
    Fred Ott's Sneeze (1894) .1st copyrighted film in USA
    .One of the earliest films made

  • FIRST KINETISCOPE PARLOR OPENED IN NEW YORK

    FIRST KINETISCOPE PARLOR OPENED IN NEW YORK
    .In 1894 the first Kinetoscope parlor opened in New York.
    .For about two years the Kinetoscope was highly profitable, but it was eclipsed when other inventors, inspired by Edison’s new device, found ways to project films on a screen.

  • INVENTION OF THE CINEMATOGRAPH

    INVENTION OF THE CINEMATOGRAPH
    Effectively functioned as camera, projector and printer all in one.

  • THE LUMIERE BROTHERS HAVE THE WORLD'S FIRST PUBLIC FILM SCREENING

    THE LUMIERE BROTHERS HAVE THE 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.

  • LELAND STANFORD'S BET

    LELAND STANFORD'S BET
    Betted $25,000 that all four hooves of a horse level the ground simultaneously.

  • A TRIP TO THE MOON

    A TRIP TO THE MOON
    Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902) ---A comic science fiction story of a group of scientists traveling to the moon in a space capsule and escaping after being taken prisoner by a race of Moon creatures.

  • THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

    THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
    The Great Train Robbery - 1903 Silent Film - Ella73TV -Is a narrative story with multiple plot lines.
    -Two separate lines of action happening continuously at the same time but in different places.
    -Minor camera movement.
    -Location shooting.
    -Directed, photographed, and edited by Edwin S. Porter.
    -Filmed in November 1903 on various locations in New Jersey.
    -About 11 min. long.
    -14 scenes.

  • NICKELODEON THEATERS

    NICKELODEON THEATERS
    .Admission was a nickel
    – the name Nickelodeon.

    .Nickelodeons were
    cheaper and they
    opened films to a mass
    audience.
    .By 1908 nickelodeons
    had become the main
    form of exhibition.