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Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the phenakistoscope
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Animation/ Optical Toy made by British mathematician William George Homer; cylinder with slots on the outside to look inside while spinning to see a series of images 'moving'.
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Leeland Stnaford, governor of California in 1878, made a bet that horses' hooves all came off the ground when they ran. He called onto Eadward Muybridge to set up a series of cameras attached to trip wires that would document a horse running across a span of track. He won.
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Peepshow viewer, used film on a reel instead of a disc.
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The First Motion Picture studio.
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First Sci Fi movie, first movie with special effects.
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First narrative story with multiple plots, 2 separate lines of action, minor camera movement, location shooting, first 'stunts', first stunt close up. Lots of firsts.
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In 1895 The Lumiere Brothers put together a screening of several movies.