History of Film

Phenakistiscope was introduced

Jan 1, 1830

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~s-herbert/phenak.htm
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/animation/animation3.htm

Zoetrope was invented

Jan 1, 1867

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~s-herbert/zoet.htm
http://www.stageninedesign.com/3d-zoetrope/

Leland Stanford's Bet

Jan 1, 1872

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm
http://www.lightandmatter.com/html_books/lm/ch08/ch08.html

Eadward Muybridge invented Zoopraxiscope

Jan 1, 1879

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~s-herbert/muybridge.htm

George Eastman introduced 1st hand-held box camera

Jan 1, 1888

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm
http://dc.about.com/od/photosofmuseums/ig/NMAHPictures/kodak_camera.htm

Thomas Edison builds Kinetoscope

Jan 1, 1892

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist.html#O
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/EdisonIllustrations.htm

Dickson invented Kinetograph

Jan 1, 1892

http://www.earlycinema.com/pioneers/dickson_bio.html
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~s-herbert/kineto.htm
http://www.edwardsamuels.com/illustratedstory/isc3.htm

Black Maria - 1st motion picture studio

Dec 1, 1892

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html

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

Jan 7, 1894

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html#EE
http://www.opticaltoys.com/edison.htm

1st kinetoscope parlor opened in NY

Apr 14, 1894

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html

Lumiere Bros. have world's 1st public film screening

Jan 1, 1895

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm
http://infostory.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/this-day-in-information-first-movie-screening/

A Trip to the Moon is released

Jan 1, 1902

http://www.filmsite.org/voya.html
http://virtualvictorian.blogspot.com/2009/10/man-in-moon.html

The Great Train Robbery is filmed

Jan 1, 1903

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm
http://www.wildwestweb.net/tgtrposter.html

1st Nickelodean opened (Pittsburg)

Oct 19, 1905

http://www.filmsite.org/pre20sintro2.html
http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1905.htm

1st feature length film released in its entirety in U.S. - Dante' Inferno

Jan 1, 1911

http://www.filmsite.org/pre20sintro2.html
http://www.doctormacro.com/Movie%20Summaries/D/Dante%27s%20Inferno%20%281935%29.htm