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In 1832, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the phenakistoscope ("spindle viewer").
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The zoetrope was invented in 1834 by William Horner, who originally called it a Daedalum ("wheel of the Devil").
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When a horse is running or trotting, do all four hooves ever leave the ground at the same time? That was the wager that the former Governor of California, Leland Stanford had with some of his friends.
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This device built on a long global history of interest in image projection dating back to Plato, the Han dynasty and the Ancient Egyptians.
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was one of the first series of short films made by Dickson for the Kinetoscope in Edison's Black Maria studio with fellow assistant Fred Ott.
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first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first example of a motion picture made for the Kinetophone
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The film portrays members of the Astronomers' Club, dispatched on an expedition to the moon.
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as the previous record-holder dated back to 1909. These test videos are thought to have been shot in 1902, using a process patented by London's Edward Raymond Turner in 1899.