History of Films

Phenakistoscope

Jan 1, 1800

Alot of different people pitched in to help make this invention. This invention wa abou the size of a plate, with a peephole on it. When you would wind this creation up while looking through the peephole, you would see a moving image.

Negatives on paper

Jan 1, 1839

Henry Fox Talbot made an important advancement in the image production with the into of negatives on paper. Around this time, it had just been made possible to make photograpchic images on glass. Negatives colo is a big thing in the filming idustry.

Zoetrope

Jan 1, 1860

This invention was actually created by many people. This creation resembles the Phenakistoscope quite a bit. It was kind of like a bowl with little strips of images in the inside of it. If yu spun the bowl and looked throug these sots then you would see a moving image.

Thaumatrope

Jan 1, 1862

This creation was invented by John Ayrton. This was basically a card that has an image on each side of the card with a string that went through the card as well. When you tightened up the string the card would spin and then it would make the images go together as if it was motion.

Praxiniscope

Jan 1, 1870

This creation was actually made by Emile Reynaud. This invention resembled the Zoetrope very much so, except for the fact that this invention used mirrors. So therefore it was the same concept for when you spun it.

First Motion Picture

Jan 1, 1872

Eadweard Muybridge actually began to try to film moving pictures in this year. He started by putting twelve cameras all over a horse track. He also put thread on the track so that when the horse woud hit the thread the cameras would all move in sequence. When the Zoopraxiscope he created the first ever motion picture.

First Reel Film

Jan 1, 1885

Two men named George Eastman and William H. Walker made the first reel film. Film was basically sensitized paper with a gelatin emulision. It was then replaced by celluloid.

Kodak

Jan 1, 1888

George Eastman creates a still camera called the kodak. What this device does is produces photographs on sentized paper which he would later sell. The kodak is a modern day camera still used.

Vitascope

Feb 11, 1896

Raff and Gammon , afraid to approach Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had finally agreed to manufacture the vitascope. This invention was basically an early early projector.

Eddison's Kintegraph

Jan 1, 1900

This invention was created by Thomas Eddisons employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickinson. It was basically a machine that captured alot of images every half second.

Kinetiscope

Jan 1, 1900

This creation had a motor as well as a shutter mechanism. It then ran the loop of film past an electric light source. Somebody would then look through a window to see a moving image.

Cinematograph

Jan 1, 1900

This was created by the Lumiere brothers. This creation was basically a light weight hand held cranked machine. It could take picture really quickly that were far away.