History of Film By burrisl Jan 1, 1830 Phenakistiscope was introduced http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~s-herbert/phenak.htm http://www.exeter.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/animation/animation3.htm Jan 1, 1867 Zoetrope was invented http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~s-herbert/zoet.htm http://www.stageninedesign.com/3d-zoetrope/ Jan 1, 1872 Leland Stanford's Bet http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm http://www.lightandmatter.com/html_books/lm/ch08/ch08.html Jan 1, 1879 Eadward Muybridge invented Zoopraxiscope http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~s-herbert/muybridge.htm Jan 1, 1888 George Eastman introduced 1st hand-held box camera http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm http://dc.about.com/od/photosofmuseums/ig/NMAHPictures/kodak_camera.htm Jan 1, 1892 Thomas Edison builds Kinetoscope http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist.html#O http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/EdisonIllustrations.htm Jan 1, 1892 Dickson invented Kinetograph http://www.earlycinema.com/pioneers/dickson_bio.html http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~s-herbert/kineto.htm http://www.edwardsamuels.com/illustratedstory/isc3.htm Dec 1, 1892 Black Maria - 1st motion picture studio http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html Jan 7, 1894 Fred Ott's Sneeze was made in Edison's "Black Maria" http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html#EE http://www.opticaltoys.com/edison.htm Apr 14, 1894 1st kinetoscope parlor opened in NY http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html Jan 1, 1895 Lumiere Bros. have world's 1st public film screening http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm http://infostory.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/this-day-in-information-first-movie-screening/ Jan 1, 1902 A Trip to the Moon is released http://www.filmsite.org/voya.html http://virtualvictorian.blogspot.com/2009/10/man-in-moon.html Jan 1, 1903 The Great Train Robbery is filmed http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm http://www.wildwestweb.net/tgtrposter.html Oct 19, 1905 1st Nickelodean opened (Pittsburg) http://www.filmsite.org/pre20sintro2.html http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1905.htm Jan 1, 1911 1st feature length film released in its entirety in U.S. - Dante' Inferno http://www.filmsite.org/pre20sintro2.html http://www.doctormacro.com/Movie%20Summaries/D/Dante%27s%20Inferno%20%281935%29.htm
