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Phenakistiscope Is Introduced
This is a carboard disk with slopts around the edges so when you spin it, it kinda looks like a motion picture. -
Zoetrope Was Invented
The zoetrope is based on the same principles as the Phenakiscope but it is a cylinder ans you look through the slots on the sides to see motion. -
Leland's Bet
Leland Standford made a $25,000 bet that all four of horses hooves come off of the ground while the horse is running. So he had a man named Eaward Muybridge set up 12 cameras along the race track so that when the horses stepped on a wire it made the camera take a picture. Leland won the bet!!!! -
Eaward Muybridge Invented The Zoopraxiscope
Muybridge made the Zoopraxiscope for projecting slides.The images were painted around a glass disk. -
George Eastman Introduced First Hand-Held Box Camera
In 1888 George marked the first film. He introduced the first hand-held box camera, kodak. -
Black Maria
Edison built the first motion picture studio in New Jersey, the roof was open for sunlight. They used tarpaper and the building was built on tracks so it could move for sunlight. -
First Kinetoscope Parlor Opened In New York
This parlor had peepshow veiwers that had films that lasted for 20 seconds. -
Fred Ott's Sneeze
This was the first film from production studios. It was also the first copyrighted film. -
Lumiere Bros Have World's First Public Film Screening
This was the showing of ten films, it lasted 20 minutes. -
Kinetioscope Invented
Fred Ott's Sneeze The kinetoscope is a forerunner of the projector. It is a peepshow viewer, the films lasted 20 seconds. The film was in a continous loop. -
A Trip To The Moon Is Released
A magician named George Melies owned a theare and decided he would add films to his thearte. In his movie "A Trip To The Moon" he added special effects to this sci-fi movie. -
The Great Train Robbery
It was a narrative story with multiple plot lines. There was minor camera movement. Location shooting, a dummy was thrown off a moving train, and there was a close up of a robber shooting a gun at the camera. -
First 3D Film
The first 3D movie ever shown was called "The Power of Love', shown at the Ambassador Hotel Theator in Los Angeles. -
First Film With Audio
The Jazz Singer is the first motion picture film to have audio with it. -
First HD Film
The first HD film was made by George Lucas and he started the series Star Wars with "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" in high definition.
