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The Phenakistoscope was invented by ,Belgium physicist, Joseph Plateau. a Phenakistoscope is a card board disk with a set of pictures. When you turn the small slots on the edges the pictures will appear to move.
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The Zoetrpe was invented by Willaim George Horner. An open drum shaped device, with a series of picture that appear to move while it spins, is called a Zoetrope. It comes with smaller open slots that you look into so that you can veiw the images and see their illusion of movement.
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George Eastman produces the very first hand held camera.
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Lelan Stanford makes the gamble that all 4 horse hooves dont touch the ground at one point. so Stanford sets up 20 cameras and tripwires and has a race horse run by setting off the cameras to catch the pictures of the horse running. In the process they manage to capture the horses hooves not touching the ground.
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The Zoopraxiscope was a cammera that etched picturs into glass as the shutter went off.
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The Black Maria, invented by Thomas Edison. It was a black, tar-paper covered building/studio with a retractable or hinged, flip-up roof to allow sunlight in, and built with a turntable to orient itself throughout the day to follow the natural sunlight.
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Fred Ott's Sneeze is the very fist film to be produced by Thomas Edison in the Black Maria.
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The Holland Brothers opened the first Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway in New York City and for the first time, they commercially played movies.
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Thomas Edison and W.K.L. Dickson collaborated in building a device that allows people to see pictures move all at once creating a moving picture.
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The Lumiere Brothers host their own flim in a threater called "Wrokers Leaving the Factory"
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one of the very first and oldest movie company in America
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Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat projected Kinetoscope films at the Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, using their Phantascope projector instead of a Kinetoscope.
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First permanent Movie theatre in Buffalo, New York
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Edwin S. Porter produes the 11 min movie "The Great Train Robbery" which contained cut scenes in different areas.
