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Phenakistoscope
Joseph Plateau and sons bring the Phenakistoscope. It was a successful illsion toy of sorts. A picture on one disk viewed through slots in the other made it looked like it was moving. -
Zoetrope
William George Horner introduces the Zoetrope. It was similar to the Phenakistoscope that Joseph Plateau made, but it was in a rotating drum instead of on a disk of pictures. These were widely sold after 1867. -
Henry Fox Talbot
Talbot makes an important advancement in photograph making by introducing negatives on paper instead of glass. It also became possible to print photographic images on glass slides. WIth a "magic" lantern, the glass slides could become projected. -
Praxinoscope
Emile Reynaud gives us the Praxinoscope. It is similar to the Zoetrope. However, instead, the illusion of movement was viewed on mirros in the centre of the drum instead of through slots outside. -
Leland Stanford Bet
This bet went over if a horse's hooves don't touch the ground at all at some point in time when they were running. To prove it, they setted up a line of twelve cameras and connected them by a trip wire. That way, they would go picture by picture to show the movement. They disovered, when stacked on top of another and flipped in order, it gave the illusion that a horse was actually running.
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Phonograph
Thomas Edison decides to make a machine meant for making and showing moving pictures. W.KL. Dickson, Edison's assistant, and he began to experiment with adapting in the phonograph. Some claim that Dickson did most of the work. -
Travels to Paris
Edison and Dickson travel to Paris and view a camer that uses flexible film. In the process of that, Dickson aquires Eastman Codak film stock. Afterwards, he begins to work one a new type of machine. -
Kinetoscope Viewing Box
Edison and Dickson are getting ready to patent the Kinetograph camera and their Kinetoscope viewing box. They used Eastman's fim cut into wide strips. There was also four holds on both sides of each fame so toothed gears could pull them through the camera. -
Praxioscope Motion Pictures
With the use of the Praxinoscope, Reynaud holds the first public exhibitions of motion pictures. It was successful. However, the long strips of hand-painted frames had a jerky and slow effect. -
Mutescope
Herman CAsler patented the Mutoscope. This device was similar to the kinescope. It worked by using a flip-card device to provide the motion picture. He need a camera, however. He got that from W.K.L Dickson who was unhappy at the Edison Co. With several others, they formed the American Mutoscope Company. -
Lumiere Family Manufacturers
They are the biggest manufacturers of photographic plates in Europe. Upon the request of making cheaper films, the brothers Louis and Auguste design a camera that is a recoding device and a projecting device. It shot films at 16 framers per second, not the forty six that Edison used, and this became a standard film rate for about 25 years. -
American Mutoscope Company
The company became the most popular film company in the US. It showed films with the Mutoscope. The peephole mutoscope was said to be more reliable than the kinetoscope.
