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First Photo Taken
First still photograph taken, using a glass plate technique Claude Niepce's photograph the View from a Window at Le Gras took nearly eight hours to expose. -
Phenakistoscope
Joseph Plateau creates this first illusion toy. Pictures on one disc viewed through slots in the other, appeared to move when the two were spun and viewed in a mirror. -
Photographic Gun
Etienne Jules Marey.\, creates a machine that allows you to pull a lever and take 12 pictures at a time. This was invented to help him study the flight of birds. -
Kodak is invented
George Eastman devises a still camera which produces photographs on sensitised paper which he named Kodak. -
Moving Picture Camera
Etienne Marey builds a box type moving picture camera which uses an intermittent mechanism and strips of paper film. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison began experimenting with adapting the phonograph and tried in vain to make rows of tiny photographs on similar cylinders. -
Praxinoscope
Reynaud exhibits a much larger version of his Praxinoscope. -
Eddison
Edison Travels to Paris and views Marey's camera which uses flexible film. Dickson then aquired some Eastman Kodak film stock and begins work on a new type of camera. -
PRESENTATION DAY
Edison and Dickson have their Kinetograph camera and Kinetoscope viewing box ready for patenting and demonstration. -
First Public Exhibitions of Motion Pictures.
Using his projecting Praxhinoscope, Reynaud holds the first public exhibitions of motion pictures. -
Edison Builds labs
Edison and Dickson build a studio pn the ground of Edison's laboratories in New York, to produce films for their kinetoscope. -
COLOR?
The Wizord of OZ. First film to use cmaera. This amazed millions of people everywhere.