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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.
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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.
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Made a "camera" (photgraphic gun) that could take 12 shots at a time.
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Created a small "Kodak" camera that used film roll
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The first film production studio
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The Luminere Brothers screened their first movie, "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory"
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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.
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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.
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First permanent movie theater
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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.
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Porter was hired by the Edison Company Studios and directed 'The Life Of The American Fireman."
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Edwin Porter directed this 10 minute long narrative. it was based on a real heist and had approximately 14 scenes.
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Officially incorporated as a municipality. It was a great site for directors, film makers, and actors.
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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.
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The first feature length film.
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First feature film produced in the U.S. It was divided into four reels and each of the reels was relesed seperately
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D.W. Griffith(the father of film) used cross cutting to create tension and build-up between scenes
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First major long-lasting studio. Universal was succesful with adaptians of classics.
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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
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D.W. Griffith's most artistic film. It was divided into two 23 minute reels. It used such cross cutting, fading, parallel editing, etc.
