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In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the Phonograph
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Eadweard took a bunch of cameras and connected them to strings, so that whenever the horses hit the strings, the cameras snapped a picture of the horse running.
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Eadweard Muybridge, the same man who invented a sequence of moving pictures to make a video, invented the Zoopraxiscope in 1879
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He placed a bet for $25,000 that at one point in a horses run cycle, that all feet are all off of the ground. He won the bet and got $25,000 in
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Was one of the first famous actors in films.
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Thomas Edison invents the kinetoscope in 1895.
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Was also another one of the first famous actors in film. He was more of the comedian/funny type.
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The west coast saw differently than Thomas Ediso. They thought that they should give out the actors names because they thought if they knew who they were & liked them, they would want to keep watching them.
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Was the first film that had 14 scenes and lasted 12 minutes.
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in 1915, Thomas Edison made a monopoly so that people couldnt shoot without his permission.
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The way Nickelodeon got their name was from the cost of it to see. Each showing costed a Nickel
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The main film cities are what they are because New York had a lot of light and independent studios that would film would grab all of their stuff and move to Mexico.
