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$25000 bet
a guy bet that all 4 feet of the horse would be off the ground when he proved he was right they took pictures and then they saw that a lot of pictures could make a moving picture or animation -
Camera Mounting
Early movie cameras were fastened to the head of their tripod with only simple levelling devices provided. These cameras were thus effectively fixed during the course of the shot, and hence the first camera movements were the result of mounting a camera on a moving vehicle. The Lumière brothers shot a scene from the back of a train in 1896. -
kinetoscope
invented by Thomas A. Edison and William Dickson of the United States in 1891. In it, a strip of film was passed rapidly between a lens and an electric light bulb while the viewer peered through a peephole. Behind the peephole was a spinning wheel with a narrow slit that acted as a shutter, permitting a momentary view of each of the 46 frames passing in front of the shutter every second. -
lumiere brothers
French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinématographe -
Animaton
The first use of animation in movies was in 1899, with the production of the short film Matches: An Appeal by British film pioneer Arthur Melbourne-Cooper- a thirty-second long stop-motion animated piece intended to encourage the audience to send matches to British troops fighting the Boer War. The film contains an appeal to send money to Bryant and May who would then send matches to the troops fighting in South Africa. -
nickeldeon
These were called nickelodeons because it only costed a nickel to watch the show in the movie theater.during this time small theaters and skits were popular -
Film Editing
These weren't represented as a continuous film, the separate scenes were interspersed with lantern slides, a lecture, and live choral numbers, to increase the running time of the spectacle to about 90 minutes. -
Trip To The Moon
The film was an internationally popular success on its release, and was extensively pirated by other studios, especially in the United States. Its unusual length, lavish production values, innovative special effects, and emphasis on storytelling were markedly influential on other film-makers and ultimately on the development of narrative film as a whole. An original hand-colored print was discovered in 1993 and restored in 2011. -
The Great Train Robbery
with this film a real story line involving crosscutting between different narrative sequences. this film was 12 minutes long and was very impressive at the time. -
First nickelodeon theater
The first successful permanent theatre showing only films was "The Nickelodeon", which was opened in Pittsburg. By then there were enough films several minutes long available to fill a programme running for at least half an hour, and which could be changed weekly when the local audience became bored with it. -
Mary Pickford
she was the cofounder of both the Pickford fairbanks she was known in her prime as america's sweetheart and the girl with curls. Pickford was one of the earliest starts. -
charlie chaplin
A silent film star. Chaplin was known as the tramp.he was born in London. Chaplin cofounded the distribution company united artist -
The Early Days
nickelodeon theaters were attracting 26 million viewers each week. this is a time were the film/movie industry boomed.films were originally shot on the east side of the us.Then moved to near california for lighting and weather -
During world war I
The years of the First World War were a complex transitional period for the film industry. The exhibition of films changed from short one-reel programmes to feature films. Exhibition venues became larger and began charging higher prices. -
Between the ww and the great depression
1920 was the decade between the end of the Great War and the Depression following the Stock Market Crash. basic patterns and foundations of the film industry (and its economic organization) were established in the 1920s. -
World war II
The onset of US involvement in World War II also brought a proliferation of films as both patriotism and propaganda. American propaganda films included Desperate Journey, Mrs. Miniver, Forever and a Day and Objective Burma. Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi films -
1950
Distressed by the increasing number of closed theatres, studios and companies would find new and innovative ways to bring audiences back. These included attempts to widen their appeal with new screen formats. Cinemascope, was announced with 1953's The Robe. VistaVision, Cinerama, and Todd-AO boasted a "bigger is better" approach to marketing films to a dwindling US audience. This resulted in the revival of epic films to take advantage of the new big screen formats. -
The 1990s
The early 1990s saw the development of a commercially successful independent cinema in the United States. Although cinema was increasingly dominated by special-effects films such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Jurassic Park (1993) and Titanic (1997), the latter of which became the highest-grossing film of all time at the time up until Avatar (2009) -
Recent Years
More films were also being released simultaneously to IMAX cinema, the first was in 2002's Disney animation Treasure Planet; and the first live action was in 2003's The Matrix Revolutions and a re-release of The Matrix Reloaded. Later in the decade, The Dark Knight was the first major feature film to have been at least partially shot in IMAX technology.
