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Fantascope
A device invented by Joseph Plateau that simulated motion. A set of pictures would be placed inside in slots and when someone would place it in front of a mirror and spin it around it would appear that the objects were moving. -
Eadweard Muybridge
Created the first animated "movement" called "the Horse In Motion" This short animaniton used a series of photos that were played rapidly together to simulate a horse galloping. -
Marey
Made a "camera" (photgraphic gun) that could take 12 shots at a time. -
George Eastman
Created a small "Kodak" camera that used film roll -
Black Maria
The first film production studio -
Cinematographe
The Luminere Brothers screened their first movie, "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory" -
Alice Guy (Blaché)
She started as a secretary for Léon Gaumont in 1894. Later she became the first female director in the indusrty by directing "The Cabbage Fairy" in April of 1896. -
Vitascope
Thomas Edison's Company purchased an improved version of the Phantascope. On April 23, 1896 Thomas Edison screened the first motion-picture Vitascope projection movie. -
Vitascope Hall
First permanent movie theater -
Georges Melies
Georges first film was based on trick photography with stop-motion. One of his most famous films, A Trip To The Moon, used a combination of dissolves, trick photgraphy, fade in and out and hand-tinting. -
Edwin S. Porter
Porter was hired by the Edison Company Studios and directed 'The Life Of The American Fireman." -
The Great Train Robbery
Edwin Porter directed this 10 minute long narrative. it was based on a real heist and had approximately 14 scenes. -
Hollywood
Officially incorporated as a municipality. It was a great site for directors, film makers, and actors. -
Nickelodeons
Kinetoscope parlors, storfronts, and lecture halls were converted into some of the first real movie theaters. patrons would pay a nickel (or sometimes a dime) to watch a ten minute- to an hour clip of vaudvilee acts, short films, etc. -
The Story Of The Kelly Gang
The first feature length film. -
Les Miserables
First feature film produced in the U.S. It was divided into four reels and each of the reels was relesed seperately -
The Lonely Villa
D.W. Griffith(the father of film) used cross cutting to create tension and build-up between scenes -
Universal Studios
First major long-lasting studio. Universal was succesful with adaptians of classics. -
Dante's Inferno
This was the first feature-film realsed in it's entirety in the U.S. It was a 6 minute long epic that opened on December 10, 1911 at Gane's Manhattan Theare in New York -
The Mothering Heart
D.W. Griffith's most artistic film. It was divided into two 23 minute reels. It used such cross cutting, fading, parallel editing, etc.
