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History of film

  • Phenakistiscope was introduced

    Phenakistiscope was introduced
  • Zoetrope was invented

    Zoetrope was invented
    Zoetrope was invented
  • Leland's bet

    Leland's bet
    Bet that a horse is air born when it runs. then proved it!
  • Eadward Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope

    Eadward Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope
  • George Eastman introduced the first hand-held box camera

    George Eastman introduced the first hand-held box camera
  • Monkeyshines No. 1

    Monkeyshines No. 1
    Monkeyshines No. 1, the only surviving film from the cylinder kinetoscope, and apparently the first motion picture ever produced on photographic film in the United States. It featured the movement of laboratory assistant Sacco Albanese, filmed with a system using tiny images that rotated around the cylinder. taken from: http://www.filmsite.org/milestonespre1900s_2.html
    "Film History Milestones - Pre-1900s." Film History Milestones - Pre-1900s. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Sept. 2015.
  • Kinetoscope invented

    Kinetoscope invented
  • Black Maria

    Black Maria
    first motion picture studio & year it was built
  • kinetoscope parlor

    kinetoscope parlor
  • Fred Ott’s Sneeze was made in Edison’s “Black Maria”

    Fred Ott’s Sneeze was made in Edison’s “Black Maria”
  • Period: to

    Novelty Period

    shining new time for flim!
  • The Lumiere brothers

    The Lumiere brothers
    The Lumiere brothers have the world’s first public film screening
  • A Trip to The Moon is released

    A Trip to The Moon is released
    A Trip to The Moon is released
  • The Great Train Robbery is filmed

    The Great Train Robbery is filmed
    The Great Train Robbery is filmed
  • first nickelodeon

    first nickelodeon
  • Dinosaur Wars

    Dinosaur Wars
    The epic battle waged over dinosaur fossils by rival paleontologists in the American West. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/filter/1800-1900/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dinosaur/
  • Annie Oakley

    Annie Oakley
    She was the toast of Victorian London, New York, and Paris. She was "adopted" by Indian chief Sitting Bull, charmed the Prince of Prussia, and entertained the likes of Oscar Wilde and Queen Victoria. Annie Oakley excelled in a man's world by doing what she loved, and won fame and fortune as the little lady from Ohio who never missed a shot. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/filter/1800-1900/
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/oakley/