History of Film

  • Phenakistiscope was introduces

    Phenakistiscope was introduces
    Wooden disc with slots around the edge and drawing betweeen then, if were to be spun it would look like the pictures were moving
  • Zoetrope was invented

    Zoetrope was invented
    youtube video This is a cylinder verson of the Phenakistiocope with pictures on the side and the bottom
  • Leland Stanford's Bet

    Leland Stanford's Bet
    Leland Standford had bet that a horse was in mid air with all huffs off the floor when it had ran. Therefore Leland had hired a photographer who had a passion for taking pictures of animlas to take one of a horse running.
  • Eadward Muybridge ivented the Zoopraxiscope

    Eadward Muybridge ivented the Zoopraxiscope
    He was a photographer that took some string and tided it to the cameras triggers to take fats pitures of a horse running to see if it was in mid air at one point
  • Chronophotographic was invented

    Chronophotographic  was invented
    Etienne Jules Marey iinvented the chronophotographic a camera that is shaped like a gun and referred to as a "shotgun" camera, that could take twelve pictures or images per second.
  • George Eastman introduces first hand held box camera

    George Eastman introduces first hand held box camera
    He created the first celluloid film and the first hand held box camera
  • Kinetoscope Invented

    Kinetoscope Invented
    This was a projector that had done 20 second films on an contunous loop. Slits on the side of each film were cut into it so that it would be able to move easier through the grears.
  • The Black Maria

    The Black Maria
    This was the first production studio in New Jersery made by Thomas Edison.
  • Kineoscope Parlor

    Kineoscope Parlor
    The kineoscope Parlor opened in 1894 in new york
  • Fred Otts Sneeze was made in Edisons "black Maria"

    Fred Otts Sneeze was made in Edisons "black Maria"
    Youtube videoThis was a short film made in 1894 and was the first copyright film in the USA
  • Mutoscope

    Mutoscope
    The Mutoscope was by Herman Casler, and worked using a flip-card device to provide the motion picture.
  • The Lumiere Brothers First public film screening

    The Lumiere Brothers First public film screening
    The first public film screening was to show short films lasting swenty minutes theese films were shot at 16 frames per second
  • The May Irwin Kiss

    The May Irwin Kiss
    The May Irwin Kiss was the first film ever made of a couple kissing in cinematic history. May Irwin and John Rice re-enacted a lingering kiss for Thomas Edison's film camera in this 20-second long short
  • A trip to The Moon

    A trip to The Moon
    Was made by a Magician of cinema Georges Melies
  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery
    This was a naritve story with 2 separte lines of action in it and was the first film to use dimmys and close ups. This filml was 14 scenes and 11 minutes long.