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A cardboard disc with slots around the edge, and drawings between the slots, was spun on an axle in front of a mirror.
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he basic drum-like form of the zoetrope was created in 1833 or 1834 by British mathematician William George Horner
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California governor Leland Stanford
made a $25,000 bet
that do all four hooves of a horse level the ground simultaneously
they set up 12 cameras along a race track
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zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge
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In 1888 he introduced the simple hand-held box camera that made popular photography possible. The Kodak camera with a roll of transparent film was cheap enough for all pockets
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Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device.
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One of the earliest films made was Fred Ott's Sneeze: a short film of a guy called Fred Ott, sneezing for the camera (1894
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Fred Ott's Sneeze: a short film of a guy called Fred Ott, sneezing for the camera
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Auguste and Louis Lumiere are credited with the world's first public film screening on December 28, 1895.
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In 1894 the first Kinetoscope parlor opened in New York
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Auguste and Louis Lumiere are credited with the world's first public film screening on December 28, 1895.
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1902) – a comic science fiction story of a group of scientists traveling to the moon in a space capsule and escaping after being taken prisoner by a race of Moon creatures.
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Edwin S. Porter
The most important American filmmaker of the early period.
Making the first story film: The Great Train Robbery.
Used the parallel editing
