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Phenakistoscope
Early optical toy. Displayed a simple animation. -
Zoetrope is invented
A new optical toy is created baced off of Phenakistoscope -
Leland Stanford's bet
Leland Stanford bets that all 4 hoves of a horse become airborne when they run. He sets 12 tripwire cameras and creates and proves that he is right wining $25,000 -
zoopraxiscope
A disc with a set of drawings that animate when spinned -
Kodak #1
First handheld camera is created by George Eastman. -
Black maria Film studio
The worlds first movie production studio. Built by Tomas edison. The Boxing Cats: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/36/The_boxing_cats_%28Prof._Welton%27s%29.ogv/The_boxing_cats_%28Prof._Welton%27s%29.ogv.360p.webm -
First public kinetoscope parlor opens in New York
Now the people of new york can experence the kinetoscope. -
Lumiere brothers have the worlds first movie screening
People can now for the first time ever publicly watch the lumiere brothers films. -
Fred Ott’s Sneeze
First picture filmed in the black maria. -
Kinetoscope invented
A peep show viewer that displays frames at a rapid pace creating "movement" in the peep hole. Invented by WKL Dickson and built buy Tomas Edison. -
A trip to the moon is filmed
First sci-fi film -
The great train robbery is filmed.
The worlds first multi scene film is produced and first stunt
