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Started with a bet
a 25k bet. it was to see if in the horse race the horse at on point had its four legs off the ground. Some dessagreed anf others were for ir. so they set up an experiement and took a series of pictures and the horse did at one point have all four legs in the air. -
When It all Started
They started producing a series of short films. They started showing them in paris cafe and charging one franc admission the films covered with blockbuster issue as a man falling off a horse and a child trying to catch a fish in a fishbowl -
Kinetoscope Partor
Once the princliple of creating the illusion of motion from a series of motion from a series of still images was realized, devices were invented that would fascinate anyone who wanted to watch. -
Peephole kinetoscope
Edison invention he was making lots of money off of it. only one person could see the images at the same time.It was his own company and the device was used to view film and pictures -
Thomas Edison
It was an employee of Thomas Edison, Edwin Porter, who in 1903, created the first us narrative film, the Great Train Robbery. Porter had 14 scenes and lasted 12 minutes, a real epic by th standards of the day -
Nickelodeon
(First) The nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures. Usually set up in converted storefronts, simple theaters charged five cents for admission and flourished from about 1905 to 1915. -
Nickeloldean Theaters
The theators were attracting 26-million viwers each week. Five years later that number had more than doubled. The popularity of films soon attracted the attention of those seeking potential for big profits. and the best way was to creat a monopoly -
Charlie Chaplin
By 1918, he was one of the best known figures in the world.
Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him complete control over his films. -
Mary Pickford
was a Canadian-American motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary"and "The girl with the curls," -
First Film office
Georges Méliès built one of the first film studios in May 1897. It had a glass roof and three glass walls constructed after the model of large studios for still photography, -
Movie Starts Salary (Charlie Chaplin)
FIrst 20th century this undisputed superstar genius of silent comedy he started workeding and making 150 a week and by 1917 he was making more then a million a year. This was more then just an empty- headed humor in his work
