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A cardboard disc with slots around the edge, and drawings between the slots, was spun on an axle in front of a mirror.
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The zoetrope is based on the same principle as the phenakistiscope, but is cylindrical in shape. This enabled several people at the same time to view the moving pictures - an advance over the single spectator of the earlier toy.
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Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope, a machine for projecting slides onto a distant surface.
The silhouette images, derived from his sequence photographs, were painted around the edge of a large glass disc -
The Kodak camera with a roll of transparent film was cheap enough for all pockets and could be used by a child.
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.Thomas Edison built a Kinetoscope, or peep-hole viewer.
.Kinetoscope - a forerunner of the projector.
.Peepshow viewer. A customer could drop a penny into the kinetoscope, turn the crank, look through the viewfinder.
.The films lasted only 20 seconds.
.The film was in a continuous loop
.Run over rollers -
.The first motion picture studio near Thomas Edison's lab in New Jersey.
.made from
-tarpaper shed
-the roof opened to sky to provide enough light for photography
.The building turned on tracks to face the sun -
Fred Ott's Sneeze (1894) .1st copyrighted film in USA
.One of the earliest films made -
.In 1894 the first Kinetoscope parlor opened in New York.
.For about two years the Kinetoscope was highly profitable, but it was eclipsed when other inventors, inspired by Edison’s new device, found ways to project films on a screen. -
Effectively functioned as camera, projector and printer all in one.
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The showing of approximately ten short films lasting only twenty minutes in total was held in the basement lounge of the Grand Cafe in Paris.
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Betted $25,000 that all four hooves of a horse level the ground simultaneously.
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Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902) ---A comic science fiction story of a group of scientists traveling to the moon in a space capsule and escaping after being taken prisoner by a race of Moon creatures.
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The Great Train Robbery - 1903 Silent Film - Ella73TV -Is a narrative story with multiple plot lines.
-Two separate lines of action happening continuously at the same time but in different places.
-Minor camera movement.
-Location shooting.
-Directed, photographed, and edited by Edwin S. Porter.
-Filmed in November 1903 on various locations in New Jersey.
-About 11 min. long.
-14 scenes. -
.Admission was a nickel
– the name Nickelodeon.
.Nickelodeons were
cheaper and they
opened films to a mass
audience.
.By 1908 nickelodeons
had become the main
form of exhibition.
