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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau
The Belgian scientist Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, developed a spindle viewer or spinning wheel called a phenakistascope and the developed the thurmatrope. -
Eadweard Muybridge
British photographer Eadweard Muybridge took the first successful photographs of motion.producing multiple images of a horse. "Flying" while galloping. -
Hannibal W. Goodwin
celluloid film was invented by American clergyman Hannibal W. Goodwin. -
George Eastman
George Eastman introduced the lightweight, inexpensive "Kodak" camera, using paper photographic film wound on rollers, and registered the trademarked name "Kodak" -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison also developed or invented the Kinetoscope, a single-viewer peep-show device in which film was moved past a light. -
Lumière brothers
In France, two brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the Cinématographe whichwas made in early 1895. first public screening often considered as the "birth of film" -
Georges Melies
The French magician Georges Melies became the film industry's first film-maker to use artificially-arranged scenes to construct and tell a narrative story -
George Porter
first person to film out of sequence . The Great Train Robbery, one of the first western films -
nickelodeons
About 5,000 nickelodeons existed throughout the United States. Many studios were created to keep up with the increased demand for films. -
Nestor film company
first film-makers to arrive in Los Angeles. Filmmakers began to realize that the Los Angeles area was a good filming area with a favorable climate -
Lev Kuleshov
Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov experimented with montage, a new editing technique pioneered by Russian filmmakers.came up with juxtaposition -
Sergei Eisenstein
Russian director Sergei Eisenstein's classic landmark filmm Battleship Potemkin.played with pacing and jaxtaposition -
Ptolemy
He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer.lived in alexandria.Ptolemy discovered (and proved) Lucretius' principle of persistence of vision -
Lucretius
Lucretius was a Roman poet and philosopher.he lived in rome, Italy.discovered persistance of vision
