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Leland's bet
Leland Stanford bet $25,000 to his friends that when a horse is running all 4 hooves are off the ground, basically hovering. -
Zoopraxiscope
Projector to show slides onto a distant surface, Muybridge invented this. -
First Hand held camera
George Eastman created this hand held box and the Kodak film was cheap enough for everyones pockets and could be used by children -
Kinetoscope was invented
Thomas Edision had the idea of the Kinetoscope, but W.K.L Dickson is created with the Kinetoscope, because he was a worker for Thomas Edision and actually created the Kinetoscope -
Black Maria
Edison made the VERY first motion picture studio. This was called the Black Maria. It was covered in tarpaper to block sun out. Only had on whole to allow sunlight -
First Kinetoscope Parlor in NY
First Parlor for Kinetoscope was made so people could go watch 20 second videos somewhere. -
Fred Ott's Sneeze
Was the first copyrighted film to be showed of Fred Ott sneezing. People went to the theaters to go watch it. The movie was only 8 seconds long -
Color tinted film
The first color tinted film was "Annabelle Serpentine Dance" and it came out publically in 1895 -
Public Testing
The very first public testing and emenstration of the Lumieres' camera projector system was in their basement. -
Lumiere Brothers have first public film
Lumiere Brother's have created the very first PUBLIC film for everyone to see. -
Permenant Theater
The first permanant theater was designed to as a venue to specifacally show projections of movies. This theater was called, "Edisonia Vitascope Theatre" it seated 72 people at once. -
A Trip to the Moon
Georges Melies, the magician of Cinema, created this movie, and it was released in 1902 -
The Great Train Robbery was filmed
Had multiple plot lines, 2 different lines of action, the first stunt ever was done (dumbie thrown off train), movie was 11 minutes long, 14 scenes, and could be commercialized and people would pay to see it.
