History Of Film

  • Phenakistiscope Invented

    Phenakistiscope Invented
    A cardboard Disc with slots around the adge, and drawings between the slots.
  • Zoetrope Invented

    Zoetrope Invented
    Based on the same principal as the first one except as a cylinder
  • 25,000 Bet by Leland Stanford

    25,000 Bet by Leland Stanford
    Leland Stanford bet $25,000 that a horse levels the ground at the same time, he won the bet
  • Zoopraxiscope

    Zoopraxiscope
    Projects sihouette images derived from his sequence phetographs were painted on a large glass disc
  • George Eastman Marketed the first Celluloid Film

    George Eastman Marketed the first Celluloid Film
    The first celluloid film aswell as introduced a hand-held box camera that made populaer photograpy possible
  • Edison Built the Kinetoscope

    Edison Built the Kinetoscope
    Made before the projector, turns crank to activiate it, look through the hole
  • Edison Built the first motion picture studio

    Edison Built the first motion picture studio
    Edison and Dickson needed film for their machines, so they made the first motion picture studio
  • Period: to

    Novelty Period

  • Trip to the moon made

    Trip to the moon made
  • The Great Train Robbery made

    The Great Train Robbery made
  • Period: to

    Nickelodeons

  • Period: to

    Film at a business

  • Films were rented, not sold after this year

    Films were rented, not sold after this year
    From copyright and piracy movies were not sold to theaters, but now rented
  • Character Psychology added after this year

    Character Psychology added after this year
    Character psychology wasnt important before this year from most films made as a slapstick or a melodrama
  • Porter Fired from edison production

    Porter Fired from edison production
    Edwin S. Porter fired from the Edison Production
  • Division of Labor

    Division of Labor
    Added Job specializations for making a movie, An example is Directors
  • Last film Melies made

    Last film Melies made
    The Last Film George Melies Made before he stopped
  • Film companies started giving the script to director

    Film companies started giving the script to director
    the Director was given strict orders when receiving the script of the movie so they can save money
  • Ethel Barrymore had films seldom include credits

    Ethel Barrymore had films seldom include credits
    Ethel Barrymore had went on strike for not giving the actors the credit, she had succeeded with making the movie makers add credits at the end of the movie