History of Cinema

  • Phenakistiscope

    Phenakistiscope
    an early animation device that used the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion.
  • Zoetrope

    Zoetrope
    a Zoetrope is a device that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.
  • Leland Stanford's Bet

    Leland Stanford's Bet
    lead to the dawn of cinema
  • Zoopraxiscope

    Zoopraxiscope
    The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion picture made by Eadward Muybridge.
  • First Hand-held Box Camera

    First Hand-held Box Camera
    this hand-held camera was invented by Georde Eastman and allowed cameras to be available tp the everyday consumer instead of major photographers.
  • Kinetoscope

    Kinetoscope
    this is the date of when the prototype was first released at the National Federation of Women's Clubs
  • Edison's Black Maria

    Edison's Black Maria
    exact date of opening is not available. but opened 1893 and the first short film shot was "Otts Sneeze" which i believe was the first film up for copyrights. the Black Maria was built in New Jersey
  • First Kinetoscope Parlor

    First Kinetoscope Parlor
    opened in New York. (exact date n/a) this parlor allowed people to stop buy and pay a nickel or a penny to view a short few second film
  • Fred Ott's Sneeze

    Fred Ott's Sneeze
    this short film was basically what started the whole moving picture industry, and was shot in the "Black Maria"
  • The Lumiere Borthers

    The Lumiere Borthers
    the brothers were the first to make the Cinematograph which was a combination fo the camera, projector, and printer. they also were the first to release a film to an entire group of people to come watch.
  • Film

    Film
    Dickson, the creator of the kinetoscope specially cut out 4 holes onto the side of all film reels so that the machine had something to latch to when playinga movie
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    although he wasnt the person who made the kinetoscope, he was the person who made the concenpt and one of his employees made it a reality
  • A Trip To The Moon

    A Trip To The Moon
    filmfirst sci-fi movie
  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery
    first multi-scene movie
  • Edwin S. Porter

    Edwin S. Porter
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oTdPklBE0Ymade the first film to have a story and 2 scenes in 1 movie instead of only one shot called "The Great Train Robbery"