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The very first photograph ever taken. It was from an upstairs window in Le Gras. It was made using a glass technique
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Created by Joseph Plateau, the Phenakistoscope was an early illusion toy. It was very successful. It was a toy that had pictures on one disk in different slots
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The Zoetrope, created by William George Horner, was in some ways like the Phenakistoscope, but it was used in a rotating drum
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Henry Fox Talbot creates negative images as to using glass slides. Printable glass images also come to be.
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Known today as the film wheel old projectors once used
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Created by Emile Reynaud, the praxinoscope is closely related to the zoetrope. This machine saw images through the center of the drum using mirrors instead of through the outside
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George Eastman creates a still camera and names it Kodak
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On Dec. 28, 1895, at the Grand cafe in Paris, people paid one Franc to watch a 25 minute film.
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The The Lumière brothers sent a representative of the company to start a business of cinema movies worldwide
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American mutoscope company becomes most popular movie industry in America with the mutoscope beating out the kinetoscope
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Edwin porter makes, The life of an American Fireman. with brand new visual storytelling techniques. Major precursor to, The Great Train Robbery
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Cecil Hepworth creates new film starring himself, a dog, his wife, and a child star.
