This document provides a brief history of the key developments in early film technology, art, and business from the 18th century through the late 19th century. It describes inventions like the zoetrope and technologies like persistence of vision that helped enable the development of motion pictures. Important contributors discussed include Eadweard Muybridge, Etienne-Marey, the Lumiere brothers, and Thomas Edison, who developed early film cameras, projectors, and the first movie studio.

1. Film History The Beginnings

2. Three Ways to Look at Film History Technology Art Business

8. Photography Had to have photography before motion pictures

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

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

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