history of film

  • phenakistiscope

    phenakistiscope

    cardboard discs with slits around the edges
  • zoetrope

    zoetrope

    same principle as the phenakinstiscope but it is a cylindrical shape
  • leland standford

    leland standford

    -once a californian govenor
    -$25,000 bet
    -do all four hooves of a horse leave the ground simultaniously
  • zoopraxiscoipe projector

    zoopraxiscoipe projector

    inventd by muybridge, a machine that projects images to another surface
  • black maria

    black maria

    edison built the first motion picture studio near hisin new jersey. it was a shed
  • fred ott's sneeze

    fred ott's sneeze

    • 1st copyrighted film in USA
    • first film in prodoction studio
  • Period: to

    novelty period

    topicals were invented on unpredictable news events audience prefferred story films
  • cinematograph

    cinematograph

    functioned as a camera,projector, and printer all in one
  • the lumiere brothers

    the lumiere brothers

    credited for the worlds first public film screening on december 28 1895. lasted 20 minutes.
  • kinetoscope

    kinetoscope

    invented by thomas edison but W.K.L dickson was credited for it
  • george melies, magician of the cinema

    george melies, magician of the cinema

    -trip to the moon
  • the great train robbery

    the great train robbery

    • first story film made by edwin s. porter -used parallel edeting
    • narritive story with multiple plot lines
    • a dummy thrown off the moving train first in film history
    • filmed in 1903
  • renting movies

    renting movies

    Exhibitors had to rent films in order to watch it
  • nickelodeons

    nickelodeons

    five cent theatres