Video timeline

  • Eadweard

    Eadweard
    photographer Eadweard Muybridge took the first photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move.
  • Kinetoscope parlor

    Kinetoscope parlor
    a kinetoscope where you are looking at moving images, people would usually pay 1 dollar to watch.
  • cinematographe

    cinematographe
    an object that showed a short 20-30 second video to a small group of audience.
  • nickelodeons

    nickelodeons
    in the early 1900's vaudevilles soon expanded into nickelodeons.
  • Vaudeville

    Vaudeville
    in the 1900's there were short dramatic or comedy skits called vaudeville with songs or dance routines.
  • Great train Robbery

    Great train Robbery
    Thomas Edison created the 12 minute short film The Great Train Robbery in 1903 with Edwin Porter.
  • cartoon

    cartoon
    First animated cartoon was created
  • ban movies

    ban movies
    the police in chicago have the authority to ban movies
  • How it began

    How it began
    it all began with a 25,000$ bet to see if all of the horses feet are in the air.
  • Peephole

    Peephole
    thomas edison created the peephole kinetoscope, only one person was able to look through the hole.
  • MPPC

    MPPC
    Motion Picture Patent Company led by Thomas Edison, pretty much a club to control the film industry.
  • West Coast

    West Coast
    soon the film industry moved to west coast, or California because for on the lighting, and two if MPPC were to come to LA they could quickly escape to Mexico to save everything.