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Phenakistiscope, Zoetrope, Zoopraxiscope
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Disk with images painted between slots, spun around to create the illusion of movement
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The Zoetrope was in a cylindrical shape and had slits in the middle with pictures painted on the insides and when spun, the pictures appeared to be moving.
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California governor, Leland Stanford bets $25,000 that when horses are racing, all of their legs come off of the ground and they become airborn.
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The Zoopraxiscope is a projector invented by Eadward Muybridge, with a sequence of photos painted around the edges.
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George Eastman, of Eastman Kodak Corp., developed the first hand-held camera with transparent film
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Geaorge Eastman invented the first handheld box camera along with transparent film.
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Thomas Edison created the lightbulb and the phonograph, but in 1891 he created a Kinetoscope, a projector with films that only lasted 20 seconds on a continuous loop.
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The black Maria is the first motion picture studio made of tar paper with a hole in the ceiling.
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People come here to see images "moving' through the kinetoscopes.
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The first movie ever made.
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1st public film screening using a cinematograph.
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Combined his magic with his films, using stop-motion and special effects.
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Edwin S. Porter's first film, The Great Train Robbery, a story with two separate narrative plots, the first stunt, and someone shooting a gun directly at the camera.
