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eadweard muybridge
eadweard muybridge discovered motion picture. He did so when watching horses run and made a bet that all four feet would come off of the ground. In a rapid sequence photos were taken then lined up which turned into motion when watched giving it that illusion that its moving so its called motion picture. -
William Kennedy Dickson and Thomas A. Edison
William Kennedy Dickson and Thomas A. Edison are the inventors of the Kinetoscope which is a strip of film that was passed rapidly between a lens and an electric light bulb while the viewer peered through a peephole. -
lumiere brothers
Louis Lumière and his brother, Auguste Lumière's, invention of Cinematography and the motion picture camera as well as Autochrome color photography. -
vaudeville
a mixture or variety of entertainment featuring all types of talent from anywhere of singing and dancing to comedy and magic -
Edwin S. Porter
Edwin S. Porter created the great train robbery shown in 1903 with this being a silent short film about bandits robbing passengers on a train in this pioneering western. -
mppc
motion picture patents company -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison started this monopoly the motion picture patents company (MPPC) so he would basically own everything in the film industry. -
nickelodeon
nickelodeon was the first type of indoor projected motion picture films had been shown in "peep show" machines or projected in vaudeville theaters. -
Hollywood
Thomas Edison owned a majority of the patents on motion picture cameras known as the (MPPC) independent film makers fled from new York the place to be all the way to los Angeles california now the entertainment capital
