-
joseph niepce
french history inventor joseph achived first photographic image using an early device for projecting real life imagery called camera obscura. however the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded -
Invention of Thaumatrope
the invention of the Thaumatrope he earliest version of an optical illusion toy that exploited the concept of "persistence of vision" first presented by Peter Mark Roget in a scholarly article by an English doctor named Dr. John Ayrton Paris -
Phenakistiscope
the invention of the Fantascope also called Phenakistiscope or spindle viewer by Belgian inventor Joseph Plateau a device that simulated motion. A series or sequence of separate pictures depicting stages of an activity such as juggling or dancing, were arranged around the perimeter or edges of a slotted disk. When the disk was placed before a mirror and spun or rotated a spectator looking through the slots perceived a moving picture -
british inventor
william H fox talbot made paper senstive to light by bathing in solution of salt and silver nitrate.the silver turned dark when exposed to light and in turn created a negative. witch could be used to print postives on other sheets of light sensitive paper -
thomas sutton
Sutton invented the first wide-angle lens' panoramic camera. The spherical lens was filled with water that would project an image onto a long curved plate. Although soon rendered obsolete by John Johnson and John Harrison's pantoscopic camera Sutton's invention marked an important turning point in early landscape photography. He later invented a symmetrical triple lens he hoped would correct the distortion problems that plagued most lenses at the time. -
William Lincoln
The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures was a device called the wheel of life. or zoopraxiscope. Patented by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit. -
Eadweard Muybridge
Muybridge experiments in photographing motion began in 1872, when the railroad magnate Leland Stanford hired him to prove that during a particular moment in a trotting horse’s gait, all four legs are off the ground simultaneously. His first efforts were unsuccessful because his camera lacked a fast shutter. -
Etienne-Jules Marey
in 1882 etienne jules marey he developed a single camera method that he called chrono or time photography. Objective and precise chrono photography allowed Marey to make images from which scientific measurements could be taken -
the french brothers
By the early 1890s, French brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière had built their family business into the biggest manufacturers of photographic plates in Europe. Inspired by an exhibition of the Kinetoscope a primitive motion picture projector invented in 1892 by Thomas Edison and William Dickson, the Lumière brothers began trying to figure out how to combine film recording and projection into a single device. In 1895 Louis Lumière came up with the solution. -
the train robbery
Edison Corporation mechanic Edwin S. Porter turns cameraman, director and producer to make The Great Train Robbery. With 14 shots cutting between simultaneous event this 12 minute short establishes the shot as film's basic element and editing as a central narrative device. It is also the first Western -
edison kinetoscope
The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector but introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video, by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high speed shutter -
warner brothers
American motion-picture studio that introduced the first genuine talking picture 1927. The company was founded by four brothers Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack Warner, who were the sons of Benjamin Eichelbaum an immigrant Polish cobbler and peddler. The brothers began their careers showing moving pictures in Ohio and Pennsylvania on a traveling. in 1923 the oldest brother harry became the president of the company and ran its headquarter
