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photography
Based not only on the proir invention of still photographery, but aslo on a combination of several more or less independent technologies. -
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Projector Design
Posed sequential pictures had been taken as early as 1860, successive photography of actual movement was not achieved until 1877, when Eadweard Muybridge used 12 equally spaced cameras. -
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Muybridge System
Associated of Muybridge devised a system of magnetic release to trigger an expanded battery of twenty-four cameras. -
Motion-Picture Camera
Motion-picture camera must be able be able to advance the medium rapidaly enough to permint at least 16 seperate exposures per second as well as bring each frame to a full stop to record a sharp image. -
Peep-Show Cabinet
At firts Edison's motion pictures were not projected. One viewer at a time could watch a film by looking through the eyepiece of a peep-show cabinet know as the Kinetoscope. -
Combination Camera
Auguste and Louis Lumiere produced a Combination Camera. Projector, first demostrated publicly in 1895 and called the cinematogarghe. Speed of 16 frames per second allowed an exposure of 1/25 second. -
Pitman Arm
The first American projectors employing intermittent movement were devised by Thomas Armat in 1895 with a Pitman arm or "Beater". -
Silent Movie
The first silent movie was produced by Thomas Edison, but directed and filmed by Edisos's company employee Edwin S. Porter. It was the first narrative movie that told a story.
