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Film Timeline
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Winning a bet
The govenor of California at the time made a bet with his friend and betted $25,000 that a horse's hooves leaves the ground all at once. -
George Eastman
first celluloid film. -
W.K.L. Dickson
invention of the Kinetoscope, a forerunner of the movie camera. -
Thomas Edison
inventor of phonograph and the electric light bulb -
Fred Ott's Sneeze
a short film of a guy called Fred Ott, sneezing for the camera -
Kinetoscope Show
In 1894 the first Kinetoscope parlor -
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Novelty Period.
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The Lumiere Brothers
Auguste and Louis Lumiere are credited with the world's first public film screening on December 28, 1895. -
Phenokistiscope
a cardboard disc with slots around the edge and mirror -
Zoopraxiscope
a machine for projecting slides onto a distant surface. -
Kinetoscope
a forerunner of the projector. -
Zoetrope
The zoetrope is based on the same principle as the phenakistiscope, but is cylindrical in shape. -
Trip to the Moon
Was the first scifi movie -
The Great Train Robbery
The pioneer of the western genre
