SOME SIGNIFICANT DATES
Additional Entries will be Added as the Term Progresses.
DATE | EVENT OR INVENTION | NOTES |
1646 | Invention of Magic Lantern | Able to project still images |
1834 | William George Horner shows Zoetrope | images appear to move in rotating wheel with slits | 1877 | Thomas Alva Edison develops phonograph | has importaance in adding sound to film |
1878 | Muybridge photographs running horses is serial phtography | |
1880 | Muybridge projects images of a running horses | Projects the images with a "Zoogyrascope" later called "Zoopraxiscope" | 1882 | Etienne Jules Marey invents photographic gun | ahoots sequential pictures |
1888 | Augustin Le Prince creates single lens camera and projector | |
1889 | Henry M Reichenbach invents fleixable film at Eastman | 1891 | Edison's employee. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson invents Kinetograph (later Kinetoscope) | "Peep" box that person could view filmed images: up to 50 feet |
1894 | Film Dickson films Fred Ott's Sneeze | Generally regarded as first motion pictire film |
1895 | Dickson, no longer with Edison, Eugene Lauste and Enoch Rector demonstrate Eidoloscope in NYC | Eidoloscope was a projector developed by Dickson First film (Young Griffo vs. "("Battling" Charles Barnett) shown to a paying audience |
1895 | Max Sladanowski projects moving pictures in Berlin, Germany | |
1895 | Auguste and Louis Lumiere shoot their first film | "real life/documentary style" films. First is Workers leaving the Lumiere factory |
1895 | Auguste and Louis Lumiere patent and demonstrate their camera/projector | Lumiere's make "real life" films" Melies is in the audience |
1895 | The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots (edospn studios) | first film with more than one shot although appears not to be (substitutes dummy for person) |
1895 | Lumiere's make Le Jardinier et le petit espiegle (The Gardener and the Little Scamp) (and remade it in 1896 as Arroseur arrose (The Gardiner Sprinkled | Often seen as first plotted film |
1897 | Enoch Rector films The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight | First "wide screen" film (filmed in 63 mm) film lasted over 90 minutes |
1902 | Melies produces 400th Film La Voyage dans la Luna (A Trip to the Moon) | film made of several shots - one per scene though. |
1902 | Edwin S, Porter makes The Life of an American Fireman | Shows a "thought" in "balloon"; cross cutting |
1903 | Porter makes The Great Train Robbery | editing:lapses in time; break from escape to office |