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The Phenakistoscope
Joseph Plateau and his children invented the phenakistoscope.
It was considered an illusion toy. Worked by the images on one side showed through the other. The image would appear when spun together and showed in a mirror. -
Henry Talbot
Henry Talbot intorduced the invention of negatives on paper instead of using glass. Also available to print photographs on glass slides. These glass slides could be used to project onto magic lanterns. This invention made an advancement in film production. -
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge takes a set of pictures showing all of a horse's feet off of the ground.Origin of the moion picture. These types of pictures are called animal locomotion photos. -
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Edison invented a machine to show and make movies. He tried to make sets of photographs on similar cylinders. He began trying to invent the phonograph. -
Film Strip is able to pull through camera
Thomas Edison and Dickson invented this idea. They used Eastman film and cut the film into inch wide strips. Then Dickson cut holes into the film allowing the film to go through the camera. The holes were punched on both sides of the film. -
Praxinoscope and Reynaud
Reynaud produces the first public display of motion pictures. It used long strips that were handpainted in frames. The effect of these were slow and jerky, -
Studio in New Jersey
Thomas Edison and Dickson build a studio on the ground in New Jersey. They use this studio to produce films that they made with their kinetoscope. Allowing for the film Black Maria to be produced in late January. -
Cinematographe
This device is able to used as a recording and projecting camera. It uses 35mm film which wraps around a model that is used on a sewing machine. This camera shot film at 16 frames per second. This becomes the new standard rate for the next 25 years. -
The Mutoscope
Invented by Herman Casler. This invention uses a flip card device to display the motion picture. He joins with Dickson to later create the American Mutoscope Company. -
Most famous film screening in history
It was prodcued in the venue that was called the Grand Cafe in Paris. Customers paid one franc for 25 minutes of film. The films that were showed were called Feeding the Baby, The Waterer Watered, A View of the Sea. -
R.W Paul
Invented a projecter after advancing his camera. Started by showing films from the year before. Didn'd allow leasing and only could buy them. This led to the spread of film in Britain which supplied filmmakers and exhibitors. -
The First Popular Film Company
The American Mutoscope Company became the first popular film company in 1897. They projected films and used the peephole mutoscope. The mutoscope was said to be more reliable than the kinetoscope. Later in 1899, they changed the name to American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
