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Phenakistiscope was introduced
A cardboard disc with slots around the edge, and drawings between the slots, was spun on an axle in front of a mirror. -
Leland Stanfords Bet
In 1878 Leland Stanford makes a 25,000 dollar bet that when a horse gallops that its feet do leave the ground and when he took pictures and used frames he proved himself to be right and won the money -
Zoetrope was invented
It enabled several people at the same time to view moving pictures an advance over the single spectator of the earlier toy. -
Eadward Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope
It was a machine for projecting slides onto a distant surface. -
George Eastman introduced the first hand-held box camera
George Eastman introduced the simple hand-held box camera that made popular photography possible. -
Kinetoscope Invented
In 1894 the first Kinetoscope parlor opened in New York the Black Maria -
First kinetoscope parlor opened in New York
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Fred Ott’s Sneeze was made in Edison’s “Black Maria”
One of the earliest films made was Fred Ott's Sneeze: a short film of a guy called Fred Ott, sneezing for the camera -
Name of first motion picture studio & year it was built
Black Maria -
The Lumiere brothers have the world’s first public film screening
The showing of approximately ten short films lasting only twenty minutes in total was held in the basement lounge of the Grand Cafe in Paris. -
A Trip to The Moon is released
Made by a magician named George Melies and it was a comic science fiction story group of scientists traveling to the moon -
The Great Train Robbery is filmed
The first story film that was created by Edwin S. Porter that used parallel editing also
