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Creation of Motion Pictures
Films all started with one bet. In this bet a man bet $25,000 that a horse took all of its feet off the ground at some point while it was running. So they got some cameras and lined them up along a horse track and ran a horse down the track. They took pictures of the horse as it would run by them. When they played all of the images really fast it looked as if the horse was actually running in the photos; such was the birth of film. -
The Lumiere Brothers
The Lumiere brothers were French men that were the first people to let groups of people watch a film together at the same time. They started out by showing the films, that ranged from thirty to sixty seconds long, in a Paris cafe. This is what Eddison didn't want a forced him to do what they did. -
Kinetoscope Parlors
Kinetoscope parlors were like the worlds first movie theatres, but they were made for one veiwer at a time to increase profit. The great inventor Thomas Edison, was the first person to release these to the public. Eddison started the kinetoscope parlors and monopolised the film industry in America by the beginning of the twentieth century. -
Vaudeville and Nickelodeons
Vaudeville theatres would have live performances, and in between performances the would show short clips of film to fill time in between acts. These were accompanied by live musical acts because because back then films didn't have sound. Vaudeville eventually evoved into Nickelodeons. They were called Nickelodeons because they only cost one nickle to go see the films. -
The First Narrative Film
Edwin Porter, an employee of Edison, was the first person to write an American narrative film. This film lasted for 12 minutes, which was incredibly long for a film back then considering most films were thirty to sixty seconds long. It was an epic for the time it was made in.
