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History of Film

By IAmEmilyWatson

  • Eadweard Muybridge

    Eadweard Muybridge
    Eadweard made a $25,000 dollar bet that when horses were running, all of their hooves were off of the ground at one point. In order to prove himself right, he took multiple pictures inorder to capture te motion which started film.

  • Peephole Kinetiscope

    Peephole Kinetiscope
    Thomas Edison invented the Peephole Kinetiscope. This device allowed a single person to look through a peephole and watch the "film".

  • Cinematographe

    Cinematographe
    The Lumiere Brothers created a projector that would allow and audience to watch a film, rather than one person watching by looking thorugh a peephole.

  • Animation

    Animation
    Animation was first used in the short film "Matches: An Appeal", produced by the British film pioneer, Arthur Melborne-Cooper. Thi was a thirty second long film.

  • Electric Theatre

    Electric Theatre
    Starting in 1902, a man named Henry Miles began renting films to theatres. The Electric Theatre in Los Angeles was the first ddevoted soley to showing films.

  • Voyage to the Moon

    Voyage to the Moon
    Voyage to the Moon was produced Georges Melies. This film was fifteen minutes long an introduced the use of color in films through hand painting and tinting.

  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery
    This film was directed by Edwin S. Porter and was twelve minutes long. It is considered the first true film, ather than short films.

  • Nickelodeon

    Nickelodeon
    On June 19, 1905, the first Nickelodeon opened in Pittsburg, Pensylvania . It was a nickel to get and seated 96 people (although about 450 came).

  • Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

    Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
    This animation made the images move by altering the drawing a little bit to make it appear as if it is moving. This is now how modern animation is made.

  • The Story of the Kelly Gang

    "The Story of the Kelly Gang" was the first multi-reel feature film. It was made in 1906 and is an Australian production.

  • Motion Picture Patents Company

    Motion Picture Patents Company
    The Motion Picture Patents Company or MPPC was founded by Thomas Edison and was the leading film distributor and was the main film company.

  • The Kid

    The Kid
    "The Kid" Was Charlie Chaplin's first film which he also directed, he filmed this using his "Tramp" persona.