film timeline

By rubi.M
  • horse race

    horse race

    Leland Stanford made a bet with another person that a horse lifts all its hooves at one point. stanford hired a man named eadweard muybridge to find photographic proof. muybridge set up twelve cameras along the race all of them trigered by tripwire to take a picture of a horse in motion. muybridge's experiment launched a wave of "motion studies" this was one step closer to motion pictures.
  • kinetograph

    kinetograph

    the worlds first motion picture camera developed by Thomas Alva Edison and is assistant/protege William K.L Dickson in the 1890s. the camera was electrically powered and worked with celluloid film which was advanced through the camera via a system of sprockets
  • kinetoscope

    kinetoscope

    kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device. the kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole at the top of the device.
  • cinematographe

    cinematographe

    Louis and Auguste made the cinematographe during 1895. this was an early term for several types of motion picture film mechanisms the term was used for movie cameras and and film projectors.
  • the first film

    film started out as a collection of still images viewed one after another in a rapid succession.
  • daguerreotype

    daguerreotype

    the daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process and was widely used during the 1940s to 1950s