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Phenakistiscope
a cardboard disc with slots around the edge & drawing between the slots -
Thomas Edison
the inventor of the phonograph & the electric light bulb -
Zoopraxiscope
"The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879, it may be considered the first movie projector." -
George Eastman
marked the first celluloid film -
Ethel Barrymore
She made her debut as a stage actress during the New York City season of 1894, also in her earliest years of cinema acters or film making she never got credit for doing her movies -
Camera
Primary appeal was the astonishment of seeing movement & unusual sighs reproduced on the screen -
The Lumiere Brothers
"French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinématographe" -
George Melies
"Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, known as Georges Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema" -
Early Films
- Vaudeville houses -Amusment parks -Small storefronts & theatre -Summer resorts -fairs for just 5 cents
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Edwin S. Porter
American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. his first film was "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903 & the "movie" was 11 minutes long -
Success
The Great Train Robbery was marked a turn toward narrative film & films grew longer using more shots and telling more -
Popular
5 cent movies got more popular, they were cheap entertainment & exibiters had to rent them and return after they were done -
Division in 1910
Production companies set up story department to prepair scenarios & winter intertitles -
Zoetrope
A cardboard disc with slots around the edge & drawing between the slots
