The History Of FilmSteph Webb

The invention of a moving picture

His early photographic experiments laid the foundation for modern cinema, with his study – ‘The Horse In Motion (1882). It was regarded by many as the first ever moving picture.

Eadweard used wet plates and produced faint, highly underexposed plates, to capture the motion of the horse and put these pictures together as a sequence.

-Eadweard Muybridge

Inventing the zoopraxiscope, Eadweard found a way to project his silhouettes in rapid succession onto a screen.

Years later, his pioneering work was cited as a major inspiration in the invention of the modern cine-camera by Thomas Edison.

Eadweard took his work to the University of Pennslyvania. Developing a new multi-lens camera.

He produced a celebrated high-speed study into the movement of both animals and humans.

THOMAS EDISONFebruary of 188 - Eadweard Muybridge visited Edison at his West Orange lab. Muybridge showed Edison the "Zoopraxiscope”

Edison bought plates from the photographer's "Animal Motion" collection.

After explaining his concept, assigned William K.L. Dickson the task of creating a contraption that allowed someone to visually capture an object in motion

In essence, he invented a movie camera.

He created a device that did "for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear." He called it a "Kinetograph’

First colour motion picture film footage

This was created by Edward Raymond Turner (a pioneer from London who patented his colour process on 22 March 1899.

Turner shot the test films in 1902 in Brighton, England but his pioneering work ended abruptly when he died suddenly of a heart attack.

First Movie Ever Shot

(U.S.A.) - Monkeyshines No. 1 – 1890

It was shot as a camera test by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise, both of whom worked for Thomas Edison.

It was filmed to be a camera test and not for commercial purposes but was classed as the first movie ever shot.

First Copyrighted Movie Ever Made

Fred Ott's Sneeze (1893-4)

It was the first movie ever made at Thomas Edison's Black Maria rooftop studio. The actual name of this movie is Record of a Sneeze, which was made in late 1893 and copyrighted on January 7, 1894.

The first Motion Picture made for Projection

Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895)

The Lumiere's then held their first paid, public screening of movies on December 28, 1895 in the basement the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris.