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Phenakistiscope Introduced
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Zoetrope was Invented
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Leland Stanford's Bet
Leland Stanford made a $25,000 bet, that when a horse ran, all 4 hooves lifted off the ground at the same time. He hired Eadward Muybridge to take pictures of it. They couldn't get a picture mid run because of exposure time on the camera, so they set up 12 cameras on tripwires to take mid-run pictures of the horse. He won the bet. -
Eadward Muybridge Invented the Zoopraxiscope
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Thomas Edison Ivented the Light Bulb
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George Eastman invented the Hald-Held Camera
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Black Maria Built
Black Maria was the first motion picture studio, and was owned by Thomas Edison and W.K.L. Dickson -
First Kinetoscope Parlor Opened
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Fred Ott's Sneeze is Filmed
Fred Ott's sneeze is filmed in the Black Maria -
Novelty Period Begins
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Workers Leaving the Factory is released
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Lumiere Brothers hold first public film screening
The show was 10 short films lasting 20 minutes in total. -
Kinetoscope Invented
Kinetoscope was a Peephole Viewer that lasted 20 seconds, and was a collaborative effort of Thomas Edison and W.K.L. Dickson. -
A Trip To The Moon is Released
A French silent film directed by Georges Melies -
The Great Train Robbery is filmed
A fiction film about a group of men robbing a train.
