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Phenikistoscope
Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the phenakistoscope -
Zoetrope
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'. -
Leeland Stanford's bet
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. -
Eadward Muybridge invents Zoopraxiscope
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George Eastman invents the first hand held camera
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Kinetoscope Invented
Peepshow viewer, used film on a reel instead of a disc. -
Black Maria
The First Motion Picture studio. -
Fred Ott's sneeze made in Edison's 'Black Maria'
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First Kinetoscope Parlor
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Trip To The Moon
First Sci Fi movie, first movie with special effects. -
The Great Train Robbery
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. -
Lumiere Festival
In 1895 The Lumiere Brothers put together a screening of several movies.