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Phenakistiscope was invented
The Phennakistiscope is a round cardboard disc with slots around the edges and picures on the side. You would look at it through a miror and look through the slots to see the pictures moving. -
Zoetrope was invented
The Zoetrope was based off of the Phenakistiscope except it was cilindracle. -
Leland Stanford's Bet
Made a $25,000 bet with his friends that all four of a horses hooves come off the ground when it runs. -
Eadward Muybridge invented the zoopraxiscope
The Zoopraxiscope was the first projector. Edward Muybridge invented it to help Leland stanford win his bet. -
George Estman introduces the first hand-held box camera
The First hand helled camera families could own was called the Kodak Camera. -
Kinetoscope Invention
The Kinetoscope was a forerunner of the projector that showed twenty secod films that had to be cranked by hand. One would have to look through a peepholl to see the film. -
The Black Maria
The Black Maria was the first production studio. it was located in New Jersy, and was compleatly black except for a holl in the roof that was used to let sunlight in. -
First Kinetoscope Parlour opened in New York
A Kinetoscope parlour was a building that one would go to and pay to see a twenty second film. -
Fred Ott's Sneeze was made in Edison's "Black Maria"
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Novelty Period
This was a time when lots of new filming technology was coming out. -
Lumiere Brothers have the worlds first public screening
The screening was held in Paris in the Lounge Basement of the Grand Cafe. -
Fiction Films
By the end of the Novelty period people wanted to see films that told a story. -
A Trip to The Moon is released
George Miles created the film to use in his magic shows. George Miles was known as the magition of the cinema. -
The Great Train Robery is filmed
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Devision of labor in film industry
(Producer, Director, Camera Opperator, etc.)
