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Horse Bet
People were betting that when a horse is running, it will lift up all of its legs at some point for $25,000. So to settle the issue, people set up a camera and took a rapid sequence of pictures when a horse is running by. As the results, it was proven that the horse lifts up all 4 legs at some point while running thus settling the bet. -
Materials for a working motion picture camera
Wordsworth Donisthorpe thought it was impossible because the materials weren't available to make a working motion picture camera. But in 1889, it all changed when he heard about the successful experiments of Louis Le Prince -
Kinetoscope Invention
Because of the sequences of pictures of a moving horse, the principles of motion pictures were created. Drawings or photos were presented in rapid sequence thus creating the most basics of films. The only disadvantage was only one person could see it because you have to look through a scope -
Mutoscope
Invented by WKL Dickson and Herman Casler. Peep show type of film, audience of one. -
Cinématographe Invention
The Lumière Brothers invented a kinetoscope that could project images on a big screen for multiple audiences to see. They started producing 1 minute videos at max. They started promoting their videos by playing it in Paris cafe and charging admissions. -
Eidoloscope presented
Eugene Augustin Lauste invented the eidoloscope and presented it to members of the press. -
Phantoscope which is now Vitascope
Edison company discovered that projecting a movie to multiple audiences makes more money so they decided to make several projecting devices and they took up a projector invented by Armat and Jenkins. -
Theatrograph
Pioneered the Maltese Cross system that drove sprocket rollers to provide intermittent motion -
Birtac Home Cinema
Birt Acres came up with the Birtac Home Cinema which used a 17.5mm gauge and it was for motion pictures in everyone's reach. -
Georges Melies
Largest producer of fiction fils in France, films featuring trick effects -
America Mutoscope
Most successful motion picture company in the US, largest production till 1900. Set up to exploit peep show type films. -
American Vitagraph
Minor producers, built studios in Brooklyn, expanded operations to 1905
