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First camera
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Alexander Wolcott invents the first functional camera. It was simply capable of taking pictures, and developing them. It took the picture nearly eight hours to explose <ahref='http://photography.lovetoknow.com/First_Camera_Invented' >LovetoKnow.com</a> -
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History of the Motion Picture
The motion picture started from just a picture, taken over two hundred years ago. Now, it is one of the most technologically advanced features of society. -
Phenakistoscope
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Joseph Plateau creates the Phenakistoscope. It was used by spinning two disks, one with slots, and one with pictures, to give the illusion the the picture was moving. -
First camera Patented
Alexander Wolcott patents the design for his camera. <ahref='<ahref='http://photography.lovetoknow.com/First_Camera_Invented' >LovetoKnow.com</a>' >LovetoKnow.com</a> -
Praxinoscope
Emile Reynaud creates the Praxinoscope, a Phenakistoscope that is able to project pictures onto a mirror. Early Cinema -
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge manages to capture movement. He set up a series of cameras with trip-wires and had a horse run through the wires. When each was tripped, the camera snapped a picture, showing each stage of the horse's movement. Early Cinema -
First Projector
Emile Reynaud expands on his Praxinosope, and uses a lantern and mirrors to project moving pictures onto a screen. His first animated film: Pauvre Pierrot is displayed publiclly at the Grévin museum. Wikipidea Early Cinema -
The cinematograph
Louis and Auguste Lumiere were tasked to create films cheaper than the ones used by Edison. They developed a camera called the Cinematographe that served both as a recording device and a projector. It rant at sixteen frames per second (rather than Edison's fourty-six) This became the standard film rate for nearly 25 years. Early Cinema -
First Film
The cinimatograph shows its first public film in La Ciotat, France -
Kinetoscope
Thomas Edison and W.K.L Dickenson patent their Kinetoscope. This contraption used Eastman film cut into inch-wide strips with holes on the side of each frame, allowing gears to pull the film through the camera. America's Liberty Early Cinema -
Voyage to the Moon
George Melies produces 'Voyage to the Moon', the first ever color film. Early Cinema -
