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Sep 4, 1021
Pinhole Camera
This is the earliest record of filming created by a Persian scientist named Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen). He then published his idead in his book, the "Book of Optics". -
Idea of animation
Peter Mark Roget, who did research in physiology at the University of London, published "Persistence of Vision with Regard to Moving Objects." This book presented the idea that a succession of still images could create the appearance of motion. -
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Moving Images
The first moving images were created in the 1830s by three independent inventors, Simon von Stampfer who made the stroboscope in Austria, Joseph Plateau, Phenakistoscope in Belgium, and William Horner zoetrope) in Britain. -
Eadweard Muybridge
On this day Muybridge, under the sponsorship of Leland Stanford, performed an experiment for a $25000 bet that at one point when a horse is running at full speed all four hooves whould be off the ground. The cameras were set up parallel to the track the horse would run, 21 inches apart to cover the 20 feet taken by the horse stride, taking pictures at one thousandth of a second by the horse trrigering a trip wire that was rigged to the camera shutters. -
Chronophotographic Gun
Étienne-Jules Marey in 1882 created the chronophotographic gun. This invention of his could take pictures at 12 consecutive frames a second. The gun was originally created to oberserve animals and human locomotion. -
Roundhay Garden Scene
The earliest surviving motion picture was known as Roundhay Garden Scene is from October 14, 1888. It was created by Louis Le Prince in Roundhay Leeds. Its is also known as the first real film in the !800s. -
Edison's Kinetiscpoe Peep-show Parolor
The first showing of film was at Edison's Kinetiscpoe Peepshow Parlor. Edisons and his assistant, W.K.L. Dickson, used 70mm wide film to print each frame separately onto paper sheets for insertion into their viewing machine, called the Mutoscope. The image sheets stood out from the periphery of a rotating drum, and flipped into view in succession. The success that cam from the Parlot eventually led to the development of the American Mutoscope Company. -
Edison's Kinetiscope Peepshow Parlor
The first showing of film was at Edison's Kinetiscpoe Peepshow Parlor. Edisons and his assistant, W.K.L. Dickson, used 70mm wide film to print each frame separately onto paper sheets for insertion into their viewing machine, called the Mutoscope. The image sheets stood out from the periphery of a rotating drum, and flipped into view in succession. The success that cam from the Parlot eventually led to the development of the American Mutoscope Company. -
Vaudville
Live performances and sound recordings were paired with hand-colored glass slides projected through stereopticons and similar devices. This way, song were illustrated through a series of slides whose changes were simultaneous with the narrative development. The main reason this was done was to encourage sheet music sales. -
Birth of Animation
The age of movie camera and projector begins .. experimentors discover they can stop the crank and restart it again to obtain special effects. -
Short Film Matches: An Appeal
The most important development in film animation was the creation of the short film: "An Appeal". "An Appeal" was a 30 second stop-motion animation. The film was intened to convince people to send mathes to British soldiers fighting in the Boer War. -
Albert Edward Smith and James Stuart Blackton
Albert Smith and James Blackton in 1905 created the animated cartoon called Humorous Phases of Funny Faces. It was done by moving jointed cut-outs of the figures frame by frame between the exposures. Although at one scene in the film it seemed that objects weere moved by altering the drawing themselves from frame to frame. -
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The film business from 1949 to 1919
The years of the First World War were a complex transitional period for the film industry where the exhibition of films changed from short program of one-reel films to longer shows consisting of a feature film of four reels or longer, though still supported by short films. -
Decline of studio in Hollywood
In the 1960s the studio system bagan to decline as film were being made in other countries.
