Filmhistory

Three Ways to Look at Film History Technology Art Business

Persistence of Vision ,[object Object],[object Object]

Zoetrope ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Experimentation ,[object Object],[object Object]

Photography Had to have photography before motion pictures

Important Dates ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Daguerre Self-portrait

Eadweard Muybridge ,[object Object],[object Object]

Etienne-Jules Marey ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

George Eastman ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Eastman and Edison make movies

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Fred Ott’s Sneeze

Motion Picture Photography Solved! Filmmakers now had to find a way to show their images.

Kinetoscope ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Kinetoscope Open

Kinetoscope ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Kinetoscope Closed

Thomas Edison ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Black Maria ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

These are a few of the contributions from America. The history now goes back to Europe.

Projection Projection was a difficult problem to solve. Its roots go back as far as 1646.

Magic Lantern ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

18th Century ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Phantasmagoria

19th Century ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Projection Problems ,[object Object],[object Object],Vitascope Projector

Late 19th Century ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Lumiere Brothers ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Auguste and Louis

Cinematographe ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

December 28, 1895 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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