History of Film

  • Phonograph

    Phonograph
    In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the Phonograph
  • Eadweard Muybridge and his theory

    Eadweard Muybridge and his theory
    Eadweard took a bunch of cameras and connected them to strings, so that whenever the horses hit the strings, the cameras snapped a picture of the horse running.
  • eadweard muybridge

    eadweard muybridge
    Eadweard Muybridge, the same man who invented a sequence of moving pictures to make a video, invented the Zoopraxiscope in 1879
  • Eadweard Muybridge

    Eadweard Muybridge
    He placed a bet for $25,000 that at one point in a horses run cycle, that all feet are all off of the ground. He won the bet and got $25,000 in
  • Marry Pickford

    Marry Pickford
    Was one of the first famous actors in films.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    Thomas Edison invents the kinetoscope in 1895.
  • Charlie Chaplin

    Charlie Chaplin
    Was also another one of the first famous actors in film. He was more of the comedian/funny type.
  • West Coast

    West Coast
    The west coast saw differently than Thomas Ediso. They thought that they should give out the actors names because they thought if they knew who they were & liked them, they would want to keep watching them.
  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery
    Was the first film that had 14 scenes and lasted 12 minutes.
  • The MPPC

    The MPPC
    in 1915, Thomas Edison made a monopoly so that people couldnt shoot without his permission.
  • NIckelodeon

    NIckelodeon
    The way Nickelodeon got their name was from the cost of it to see. Each showing costed a Nickel
  • Location

    Location
    The main film cities are what they are because New York had a lot of light and independent studios that would film would grab all of their stuff and move to Mexico.