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History of Film

By Jacob Nickell
  • Phenakistoscope

    Phenakistoscope

    Early optical toy. Displayed a simple animation.
  • Zoetrope is invented

    Zoetrope is invented

    A new optical toy is created baced off of Phenakistoscope
  • Leland Stanford's bet

    Leland Stanford's bet

    Leland Stanford bets that all 4 hoves of a horse become airborne when they run. He sets 12 tripwire cameras and creates and proves that he is right wining $25,000
  • zoopraxiscope

    zoopraxiscope

    A disc with a set of drawings that animate when spinned
  • Kodak #1

    Kodak #1

    First handheld camera is created by George Eastman.
  • Black maria Film studio

    Black maria Film studio

    The worlds first movie production studio. Built by Tomas edison. The Boxing Cats: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/36/The_boxing_cats_%28Prof._Welton%27s%29.ogv/The_boxing_cats_%28Prof._Welton%27s%29.ogv.360p.webm
  • First public kinetoscope parlor opens in New York

    First public kinetoscope parlor opens in New York

    Now the people of new york can experence the kinetoscope.
  • Lumiere brothers have the worlds first movie screening

    Lumiere brothers have the worlds first movie screening

    People can now for the first time ever publicly watch the lumiere brothers films.
  • Fred Ott’s Sneeze

    Fred Ott’s Sneeze

    First picture filmed in the black maria.
  • Kinetoscope invented

    Kinetoscope invented

    A peep show viewer that displays frames at a rapid pace creating "movement" in the peep hole. Invented by WKL Dickson and built buy Tomas Edison.
  • A trip to the moon is filmed

    A trip to the moon is filmed

    First sci-fi film
  • The great train robbery is filmed.

    The great train robbery is filmed.

    The worlds first multi scene film is produced and first stunt