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In this year, the first still photograph was taken. The photograph is called "The View from A Window at Le Gras". It was taken by photoprager Claude Niepce. This one picture took 8 hours to expose!
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Phenakistoscope, which was a toy illusion, was presented in that year by Joseph Plateau. Different pictures could be viewed on the toy.
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Zoetrope In ActionIn that year, the Zoetrope was presented by a man named William George Horner. The Zoetrope was like the Phenakistoscope, except the Zoetrope had a rotating bottom with several pictures.
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That year was an important year for advancing cinema. The negatives were now on paper instead of glass. This was possible by a man named Henry Fox Talbot.
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The Praxinoscope was similar to the Zoetrope. The Praxinoscope had the same roatating disc but people viewed the photos reflected on a mirror.
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Race Horse First Film Ever 1878 Eadweard MuybridgeEadweard Muybridge finally captures a film with movement after being unsuccessful for five years. He did this to find out whether horses' hooves completely lifted off the ground when running.
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Etienne Jules Marey was inspired by the horse film and started his own study on the flight of birds. His invention produced 12 images on a circle disc.
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Thomas A. Edison's invention that year was to display moving pictures. He started experimenting with it with his assistant W.K.L Dickson.
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Emile Reynaud creates a larger praxinoscope in that year.
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The Kinetograph camera and Kinetoscope viewing box are displayed in that year.
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In that year, Reynaud uses his Praxinoscope to show the moving pictures. The effect of the machine was that it was shaky and unstable.
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Louis and Auguste Lumière both invent a machine which records and projects at the same time. This became the standard film for nearly 25 years.
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La sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon (1895) - Frères Lumière
This first film shot with the camera was shown to the public in Paris that same month it was shot -
The projector was unusual beause it used a 70 mm film which made the photos very clear.
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The company had both projecting films and the Mutoscope.
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Georges Méliès -1902- Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon)A fifteen-minute film parody of a story by HG Wells and Jules Verne. The film had special effects used and used color by hand-painting and tinting.
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The company starts making film in the 35mm format rather than 70 mm. This changed led to boost sales.
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Cecil Milton Hepworth: Rescued by Rover (1905)
A film in which Cecil Hepworth, his wife, child and dog, are in.
