History Of Film

  • Phenakistoscope

    Phenakistoscope
    The Phenakistoscope was invented by ,Belgium physicist, Joseph Plateau. a Phenakistoscope is a card board disk with a set of pictures. When you turn the small slots on the edges the pictures will appear to move.
  • Zoetrope

    Zoetrope
    The Zoetrpe was invented by Willaim George Horner. An open drum shaped device, with a series of picture that appear to move while it spins, is called a Zoetrope. It comes with smaller open slots that you look into so that you can veiw the images and see their illusion of movement.
  • George Eastman

    George Eastman
    George Eastman produces the very first hand held camera.
  • Leland Stanford's Bet

    Leland Stanford's Bet
    Lelan Stanford makes the gamble that all 4 horse hooves dont touch the ground at one point. so Stanford sets up 20 cameras and tripwires and has a race horse run by setting off the cameras to catch the pictures of the horse running. In the process they manage to capture the horses hooves not touching the ground.
  • Eadward Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope

    Eadward Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope
    The Zoopraxiscope was a cammera that etched picturs into glass as the shutter went off.
  • Black Maria

    Black Maria
    The Black Maria, invented by Thomas Edison. It was a black, tar-paper covered building/studio with a retractable or hinged, flip-up roof to allow sunlight in, and built with a turntable to orient itself throughout the day to follow the natural sunlight.
  • Fred Ott's Sneeze

    Fred Ott's Sneeze
    Fred Ott's Sneeze is the very fist film to be produced by Thomas Edison in the Black Maria.
  • 1st Kinetoscope Parlor

    1st Kinetoscope Parlor
    The Holland Brothers opened the first Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway in New York City and for the first time, they commercially played movies.
  • Kinetoscope

    Kinetoscope
    Thomas Edison and W.K.L. Dickson collaborated in building a device that allows people to see pictures move all at once creating a moving picture.
  • The Lumiere Brothers

    The Lumiere Brothers
    The Lumiere Brothers host their own flim in a threater called "Wrokers Leaving the Factory"
  • The American Mutoscope Company

    The American Mutoscope Company
    one of the very first and oldest movie company in America
  • Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat

    Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat
    Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat projected Kinetoscope films at the Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, using their Phantascope projector instead of a Kinetoscope.
  • Edisonia Vitascope Theatre

     Edisonia Vitascope Theatre
    First permanent Movie theatre in Buffalo, New York
  • A Trip To The Moon.

    A Trip To The Moon.
  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery
    Edwin S. Porter produes the 11 min movie "The Great Train Robbery" which contained cut scenes in different areas.