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Animation on film was only possible because of invention of photography in 1827 by Joseph Niépce.
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This device was created in 1827 by English physician John Ayerton Paris which has two different drawings on opposite sides of a disk.
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Well known as a photographer in California, Muybridge was hired by former governor Leland Stanford to photograph the governor’s race horse. Stanford had a wager that all four hooves of a horse leave the ground when running. Muybridge’s job was to prove the theory.
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In 1832, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the phenakistoscope ("spindle viewer"). It was also invented independently in the same year by Simon von Stampfer of Vienna, Austria.
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This device was invented in 1834 by William Horner, who originally called it a Daedalum ("wheel of the Devil"). Later, it was renamed the "zoetrope," or "wheel of life."
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The technology behind photography improved dramatically in the last half of the 19th century.
During the American Civil War (1860-1865), New York photographer Matthew Brady became well-known by taking photos of the war. -
The praxinoscope was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud.
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America’s premier inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, developed a motion picture camera (the kinetograph) and a projector (the kinetoscope) in 1891.
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Auguste and Louis Lumiere were French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector.
In 1895, they created the film “Workers Leaving the Factory” which is -
By the turn of the century, the subject of motion pictures evolved towards narrative stories.
The Edison 1902 film, “Fun in a Bakery Shop” was an early example of movie special effects.
