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zoopraxiscope
1867:The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope. However, this was a far cry from motion pictures as we know them today.Modern motion picture making began with the invention of the motion picture camera. -
motion picture camera
Thomas Edison's interest in motion pictures began before 1888, however, the visit of Eadweard Muybridge to the inventor's laboratory in West Orange in February of that year certainly stimulated Edison's resolve to invent a motion picture camera -
the first commercial transparent roll film,
In 1889, the first commercial transparent roll film, perfected by Eastman and his research chemist, was put on the market. -
flexible film
The availability of this flexible film made possible the development of Thomas Edison's motion picture camera in 1891. -
Kinetoscope
1891:The Lumiere brothers were not the first to project film. In 1891, the Edison company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. -
Cinematographe
.1895:The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. But in truth, several others had made similar inventions around the same time as Lumiere. What Lumiere invented was a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe, three functions covered in one invention.The Cinematographe made motion pictures very popular, and it could be better be said that Lumiere's invention began the motion picture era. I -
vitascope
Later in 1896, Edison showed his improved vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S.. -
Plane Crazy
However, the first Mickey Mouse Cartoon ever made was Plane Crazy in 1928, it was the third cartoon released. -
Mickey Mouse's
Mickey Mouse's official birthday is November 18, 1928 when he made his first film debut in Steamboat Willie -
multiplane camera
.Walt Disney invented Mickey Mouse and the multiplane camera. -
i max 3d camra
The IMAX system has its roots in EXPO '67 in Montreal, Canada, where multi-screen films were the hit of the fair. A small group of Canadian filmmakers/entrepreneurs , who had made some of those popular films, decided to design a new system using a single, powerful projector, rather than the cumbersome multiple projectors used at that time.
