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First Photo
The very first photograph ever taken. It was from an upstairs window in Le Gras. It was made using a glass technique -
Phenakistoscope
Created by Joseph Plateau, the Phenakistoscope was an early illusion toy. It was very successful. It was a toy that had pictures on one disk in different slots -
Zoetrope
The Zoetrope, created by William George Horner, was in some ways like the Phenakistoscope, but it was used in a rotating drum -
Negatives
Henry Fox Talbot creates negative images as to using glass slides. Printable glass images also come to be. -
Intermittent Mechanism
Known today as the film wheel old projectors once used -
Praxinoscope
Created by Emile Reynaud, the praxinoscope is closely related to the zoetrope. This machine saw images through the center of the drum using mirrors instead of through the outside -
Kodak Camera
George Eastman creates a still camera and names it Kodak -
Long film
On Dec. 28, 1895, at the Grand cafe in Paris, people paid one Franc to watch a 25 minute film. -
Business is booming
The The Lumière brothers sent a representative of the company to start a business of cinema movies worldwide -
American movies
American mutoscope company becomes most popular movie industry in America with the mutoscope beating out the kinetoscope -
Edwin Porter
Edwin porter makes, The life of an American Fireman. with brand new visual storytelling techniques. Major precursor to, The Great Train Robbery -
Cecil Hepworth
Cecil Hepworth creates new film starring himself, a dog, his wife, and a child star.
