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Zoetrope
The basic drum like form of the zoetrope was created in 1833 or 34 by British mathematician William George Horner -
$25,000 Bet
Leland Stanford ex California Governer bets that all four hooves of a horse are all off the ground at the simultaneously. -
First Celluloid Film
In 1888 George Eastman introduced the first hand-held box camera aka Kodak camera. -
Kinetoscope
Thomas Edison built a kinetoscope, or peep-hole viewer. However, W.K.L. Dickson given credit for creating it. -
Black Maria
Thomas Edison built the first motion picture studio near his lab in New Jersey -
First Kinetoscope parlor
In 1894 the first Kinetoscope parlor opened in New York. -
First Copyrighted film in the U.S.
FIrst copyrighted film was called fred otts sneeze. -
Novelty Period 1895-1897
Astonished people by seeing any motion showed upon a screen -
Lumiere Brothers
First public screening -
George Milies
Was called the Magician of cinema. Made a movie called A Trip To The Moon. The first sci-fi type movies to be made. -
Edwin S. Porter
Made The Great Train Robbery using parallel editing. Movie had 14 scenes and about 11 min. -
Nickelodeons 1905-1907
Nickelodeons were cheap and only cost 5 ceants to get in. Opened films to massive audiences. -
Success of Films
After the succes of The Great Train Robbery films gradually grew longer telling more complex stories. Movies started being shown in permanent motion picture theater. Before 1905 films were shown at fair grounds and vaudeville houses -
The Feature Film
Mid-1910s featured films would become the standard -
1st movie with sound
First movie with sound came out Oct. 1927. The sound was made with a vitaphone, the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology.
