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Invention of the Thaumatrope
(Image by http://joshpachter.com/teaching/chronology/thaumatrope.html. ) It was created by physician John Ayerton Paris. It consisted of two different drawings on opposite sides of a disk. When the disk is spun the imgages merge into one. The thaumatrope was used by Paul Roget in 1828 to demonstrate his persistence of vision concept. -
Birth of Photography
( image by: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/niepce.html) Animation on film was only possible because of the invention of photography by Joseph Niepce. Louis Daguerre, assistant to Niepce, later developed a process for developing images in the year 1837. He called it Daguerre- types or tin- type photos. -
Introduction to the Phenokistoscope
( image by http://www.juxtapoz.com/illustration/short-history-of-the-phenakistoscope)It was introduced by J. Plateau and his sons. It was a spinning disc and when looking thorugh the moving slits the discs would reflect in a mirror. It was also invented independentely by Simon V. Stampfer from Vienna, Austria in 1832. -
The Zoetrope
(Image by: http://leah-reynolds.com/work/current-projects/zoetrope-1.) The zoetrope was invented by William Horper. It consisted of a cylinder with slit cuts with vertical sides and when it spins the user looks thorugh the slits and sees the images across. -
A different take on the zoetrope
(image by : http://www.flickriver.com/groups/574194@N23/pool/interesting/) The zoetrope was improved in 1877 by a frenchman named Charles Emile Reynaud. He replaced its narrow viewing slirs with an inner circle of mirrors, so that the images could be able to reflect. The device was called the " praxinoscope". -
The improvement in photography
( image by startsateight.com) In 1885 a man named George Eastman introduced transparent and flexible film. Later on in 1888 his Kodak camera was marketed and credited for bringing photography into the lives of average americans. -
The birth of motion pictures in America
( Image by www.victorian-cinema.net) In 1891Thomas Alva Edison invented the motion picture camera called the " kinetograph" and the motion picture projector called the "kinetiscope". -
The birth of narrative films
( Image by channeleye.co.uk) "The Great Train Robbery" was a silent movie landmark that came out in the year of 1903. It was created by director Edwin S. Porter and led to the birth of silent movie pictures. -
The Lumiere brothers and motions pictures in France
( Image by www.snipview.com) Auguste and Louis Lumiere were french inventors and pioneer manufacturers. They created the first motion picture , " Workers leaving the factory". In 1907 they launched the color photo process so that movies can be seen in color rather than in black and white. -
Muybridges discovery
( image by tspwiki.com0 Eadweard J. Muybridge was hired by govenor leland stanford to photograph his race horse. Stanford had a wager that all four hooves of a horse leave the ground when running, muybridge wanted to see if his theory would be correct. Muybrige used 24 cameras and his still photographs appeared to be moving.
