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Praxinscope
The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. -
First Film Made
Sallie Gardner at a Gallop is a series of photographs made up of a galloping horse, the result of a photographic experiment by Eadweard Muybridge on June 15, 1878. This film is sometimes called the first silent film ever made. The motion picture consists of 24 frames shot in rapid succesion. -
zoopraxiscope invented
The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879, it may be considered the first movie projector. The zoopraxiscope projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion. -
Cinématographe invented
Louis Lumiere partnered with his brother August to make a better motion picture camera than Edison's kinetograph.The Lumières pursued to correct the problems they saw in the kinetograph and the kinetoscope, to make a machine with both sharper images and better lighting. -
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History of Film
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kinestoscope invented
The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was made for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the machine. -
First Animated Film with sound
In 1938, Disney created the first sound and color animated motion picture Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The name "animated cartoon" is generally not used when referring to full-length animated productions, since the term more or less implies a "short."
