History of Film By reyesm Jan 1, 1832 Phenakistiscope was introduced http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit07.htm http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html Jan 1, 1834 Zoetrope was invented http://www.zoetropes.co.uk http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html Jan 1, 1846 Invention of intermittent mechanisms http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html Jun 15, 1878 Leland Stanford's Bet http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/06/dayintech_0615/ http://equineink.com/2008/07/22/the-horse-in-motion-courtesy-of-eadweard-muybridge-and-occident/ Jan 1, 1879 Edward Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope http://inventors.about.com/od/weirdmuseums/ig/Eadweard-Muybridge/ http://www.kingston.gov.uk/browse/leisure/museum/museum_exhibitions/muybridge/machinery_and_equipment/zoopraxiscope.htm Jan 1, 1888 George Eastman introduced the first hand-held box camera http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/eastman.html http://www.geh.org/fm/toronto/htmlsrc/mE13100003_ful.html#topofimage Jan 1, 1891 Thomas Edison builds Kinetoscope http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist.html http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html Jan 1, 1891 Dickson invented Kinetograph http://inventors.about.com/od/kstartinventions/a/Kinetoscope_2.htm Jan 1, 1893 Black Maria, first motion picture studio http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html Jan 1, 1894 Fredd Ott's sneeze was made in Edison's "Black Maria" http://www.pictureshowman.com/movies_featuredmovie.cfm Apr 14, 1894 First kinetoscope parlor opened by the Holland brothers in New York http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst7732_Public-Kinetoscope-Parlor-Opens-in-New-York--1894-.aspx Dec 28, 1895 The Lumiere Brothers have the world's first public film screening http://www.alchemists.com/visual_alchemy/lumiere.html Jan 1, 1902 A trip to the Moon is released http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/29935%7C0/A-Trip-to-the-Moon.html Jan 1, 1903 The Great Train Robbery is filmed http://www.filmsite.org/grea.html Jan 1, 1908 Nickelodeans became the main form of exhibition Notes from power point
