Motion pictures timeline

Zoetrope

Jan 1, 1834

The Zoetrope is a bowl-like circle with changing pictures so as you spin it, it looks like the pictures are moving.

phonautograph

Jan 1, 1857

The "phonautograph" was the first device capable of recording sound signals accorded to "The Routledge Guide to Music Technology." Martinville's device could not reproduce sound signals though.

kinetoscope

Oct 23, 1878

Holland brothers open the first kinetoscope in the New York City
the receipt was over $16,000
Charles Francis Jenkins was the first person to have a project that was filmed motion picture for the audience
Senator Bradley forbidden one of the Edison's films

motion picture

Jan 1, 1890

W.K.L. Dickson began devoting himself to the project called motion picture
the good thing is that the motion picture camera was made

stencils

Jan 1, 1910

People used stencils to color films

first color movie

Oct 23, 1913

Thomas Edison used the Kinetophone process to make the first talking movie.

television

Jan 1, 1920

The use of transparent rods to transmit pictures onto the tv