Muybridge is hired to settle a bet whether or not a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground. He sets up 20 photograph cameras (like the Matrix) and shoots sequential photographs of a horse in motion. They win the bet.
The zoetrope-
An optical toy to view "moving" pictures. The viewer looks through the slits and spins the cylinder. Each frame is slightly different and the image seems to move.
The kinetoscope- Developed by Edison using a flexible film invented by George Eastman. The strip of film winds around rollers and gears in front of a lens. This was the next step to a projector.
The Black Maria- The first film studio- built by Edison. The building is on a turntable so it can be rotated for the best sunlight (coming in through a window in the roof). The camera and operator are in the cubicle on the right and the performers would be in the bigger section near the wall.
The Lumiere brothers- Made the first motion picture to be shown to a paying audience. They commonly made films of everyday life. They also made the first newsreels.
"The Kiss" 1896- released by Edison
Shocking to audiences used to seeing actors on a stage, this is one long medium shot. Audiences also were shocked by the subject matter- a very long kiss.
1902- Georges Melies- A Trip to the Moon
-The first film with a story
-The first sci-fi film
-First special effects and transitions- fade outs, dissolves, double exposures
-First time for film pirating
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