History of Film

  • Phenakistiscope was introduced

    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.
  • Zoetrope

    Zoetrope
    he basic drum-like form of the zoetrope was created in 1833 or 1834 by British mathematician William George Horner
  • Leland Stanford’s Bet

    Leland Stanford’s Bet
    California governor Leland Stanford
    made a $25,000 bet
    that do all four hooves of a horse level the ground simultaneously
    they set up 12 cameras along a race track
    the cameras trigged by the horse breaking the string attached to the camera shutter
    he won the bet
  • Eadward Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope

    Eadward Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope
    zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge
  • hand-held box camera

     hand-held box camera
    In 1888 he introduced the simple hand-held box camera that made popular photography possible. The Kodak camera with a roll of transparent film was cheap enough for all pockets
  • Kinetoscope invented

    Kinetoscope invented
    Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device.
    Thomas Edison built it.
  • Fred Ott’s Sneeze

    Fred Ott’s Sneeze
    One of the earliest films made was Fred Ott's Sneeze: a short film of a guy called Fred Ott, sneezing for the camera (1894
  • first motion picture studio

     first motion picture studio
    Fred Ott's Sneeze: a short film of a guy called Fred Ott, sneezing for the camera
  • The Lumiere Brothers

    The Lumiere Brothers
    Auguste and Louis Lumiere are credited with the world's first public film screening on December 28, 1895.
  • fred ott's sneeze video

    fred ott's sneeze video
  • First kinetoscope parlor opened in New York

    First kinetoscope parlor opened in New York
    In 1894 the first Kinetoscope parlor opened in New York
  • film before film

    film before film
  • world’s first public film screening

    world’s first public film screening
    Auguste and Louis Lumiere are credited with the world's first public film screening on December 28, 1895.
  • A Trip to The Moon

    A Trip to The Moon
    1902) – a comic science fiction story of a group of scientists traveling to the moon in a space capsule and escaping after being taken prisoner by a race of Moon creatures.
  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery
    Edwin S. Porter
    The most important American filmmaker of the early period.
    Making the first story film: The Great Train Robbery.
    Used the parallel editing