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Edweard Muybridge's bet
Edweard Muybridge bet with his friends that at one point a golloping horses hooves were all off the ground at one point. His friends disagreed. Whenever they all took pictures of a racing horse, frame by frame, it looked as if the images were moving together like a movie. -
Kinetoscope Parlor
The Kinetoscope Parlor was the first "movie theater." Movies were known as moving images. These images were designed for an "audience of one." This because it was thought that more money would be made. Thomas Edison invented the Kinetoscope Peephole and sold it to parlors, making quite a bit of money. -
The Lumeère Brothers
Created a projector that allowed for multiple viewers rather than an audience of one. The called this projector "cinematographe." In 1895, they began producing 30 to 60 second long short films and showing in a french cafe while charging an admission fee of one franc. -
Nickelodeons
Vaudeville was small theaters that featured comedy and drama skits, as well as song and dance numbers. The theaters were known as known as nickelodeons as they cost a nickel to watch a projection. -
First U.S. Film
Edwin Porter in 1903 created the first narrative film in the U.S, named The Great Train Robbery, which included different cramera positions and distances. The film lasted 12 minutes and had 14 scenes, a really long film by the standards of the time period. -
The MPPC
As Nickelodeons grew popular, more money was made. To deter competition, Thomas Edison led the first monopoly in film, the Motion Picture Patents Company. This made it difficult for independant films gain recognition. -
The West Coast
Many films were shot on the West Coast because there was nice weather mostly, and films needed proper light in order to be shot outside. -
Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickman
Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickman were film stars of the early era. Chaplin was known as a comedic genius and Pickman was "America's Sweetheart" at the time. By 1917, Charlie Chaplin made $1,000,000 a year. Chaplin used his films to convey messages about good and evil within society, including the rich and poor.
