Timeline: A brief history of film | Timetoast

Jan 1, 1834

Zoetrope invented

http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit10.htm http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/images/ZoetropeTopView0315.jpg
Jan 1, 1841

Phenakistiscope invented

http://www.mhsgent.ugent.be/engl-plat5.html http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Phenakistoscope_3g07690u.jpg/200px-Phenakistoscope_3g07690u.jpg
Jul 1, 1877

Leland Stanford's bet

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Jan 1, 1879

Efficient Incandescent lightbulb created for filming

http://www.filmsite.org/pre20sintro.html http://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Light-bulb.jpg
Jan 1, 1879

Zoopraxiscope invented

http://www.kingston.gov.uk/browse/leisure/museum/museum_exhibitions/muybridge/machinery_and_equipment/zoopraxiscope.htm http://www.stephenherbert.co.uk/zoops005.jpg
Jan 1, 1887

Celluloid film Invented

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Jan 1, 1888

First handheld Box camera

http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/eastmancamera.html http://seahistory.org/assets/brownie-2009-7955.png
Jan 1, 1892

Kinetograph invented

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/edison-patents-the-kinetograph http://www.victorian-cinema.net/kinetographdebedts.jpg
Apr 1, 1892

Kinetoscope

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Jan 1, 1893

First Motion picture studio

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Jan 7, 1894

Fred Ott's sneeze filmed

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr018.html http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vaiLgvvHkgA/0.jpg
Apr 14, 1894

First Kinetoscope parlor

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Mar 2, 1895

Lumiere brother's first public film screening

http://www.earlycinema.com/pioneers/lumiere_bio.html http://www.earlycinema.com/images/pioneers/lumiere_large.jpg
Jan 1, 1902

A trip to the moon filmed

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Nov 1, 1903

The Great train robbery filmed

http://www.filmsite.org/grea.html http://www.wildwestweb.net/tgtr/toshoot.jpg