History of Film

Phenakistiscope was introduced

Jan 1, 1832

http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit07.htm
http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html

Zoetrope was invented

Jan 1, 1834

http://www.zoetropes.co.uk
http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html

Invention of intermittent mechanisms

Jan 1, 1846

http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html

Leland Stanford's Bet

Jun 15, 1878

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/06/dayintech_0615/
http://equineink.com/2008/07/22/the-horse-in-motion-courtesy-of-eadweard-muybridge-and-occident/

Edward Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope

Jan 1, 1879

http://inventors.about.com/od/weirdmuseums/ig/Eadweard-Muybridge/
http://www.kingston.gov.uk/browse/leisure/museum/museum_exhibitions/muybridge/machinery_and_equipment/zoopraxiscope.htm

George Eastman introduced the first hand-held box camera

Jan 1, 1888

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/eastman.html
http://www.geh.org/fm/toronto/htmlsrc/mE13100003_ful.html#topofimage

Thomas Edison builds Kinetoscope

Jan 1, 1891

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist.html
http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html

Dickson invented Kinetograph

Jan 1, 1891

http://inventors.about.com/od/kstartinventions/a/Kinetoscope_2.htm

Black Maria, first motion picture studio

Jan 1, 1893

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html
http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html

Fredd Ott's sneeze was made in Edison's "Black Maria"

Jan 1, 1894

http://www.pictureshowman.com/movies_featuredmovie.cfm

First kinetoscope parlor opened by the Holland brothers in New York

Apr 14, 1894

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html
http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst7732_Public-Kinetoscope-Parlor-Opens-in-New-York--1894-.aspx

The Lumiere Brothers have the world's first public film screening

Dec 28, 1895

http://www.alchemists.com/visual_alchemy/lumiere.html

A trip to the Moon is released

Jan 1, 1902

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/29935%7C0/A-Trip-to-the-Moon.html

The Great Train Robbery is filmed

Jan 1, 1903

http://www.filmsite.org/grea.html

Nickelodeans became the main form of exhibition

Jan 1, 1908

Notes from power point