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- History of Cinema I
- History of Cinema: Class 2, Invention of Cinema
- 1 Magic Lantern
- 1.1 live shows
- 1.2 slides
- 1.3 often narrated
- 2 Photography
- 2.1 Camera Obscura
- 2.2 Daguerreotype
- photographic device
- Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
- 1837
- silver plate
- 2.3 Photo gun
- Étienne-Jules Marey
- fusil photographique
- shooting birds
- 2.4 Celluloid
- Hannibal Goodwin
- cellulose nitrate film
- 1887
- 2.5 Roll Film
- George Eastman
- Kodak
- 1888
- 3 Persistence of Vision
- 3.1 motion pictures
- still images
- rapid succession
- 14 frames per second
- remain in brain
- 3.2 Phenakistoscope
- 3.3 Thaumatrope
- 3.4 Zoetrope
- 4 Eadweard Muybridge
- 4.1 Zoopraxiscope
- 4.2 Biomechanical Motion Studies
- 5 Thomas Edison
- 5.1 kinetograph
- patented 1891
- motion writing device
- W.K.L Dickson and Fred Ott
- 5.2 Black Maria
- 5.3 phonograph
- 5.4 kinetoscope
- 6 Competiton for Edison
- 6.1 Mutoscope (1896)
- 6.2 Lumiere Brothers (1895)
- 7 Lumiére Brothers
- 7.1 Cinématographe
- 7.2 Actualities
- 7.3 Grand Café Screening
- one franc
- December 28, 1895
- 8 Projecting kinetoscope
- 8.1 Vitascope (1896)
- 8.2 public exhibtion
- 8.3 competition from Biograph films
- 9 Motion Picture Theaters
- 9.1 Vaudeville
- 9.2 Carnivals
- 9.3 Wax Museums
- 10 Nickeoldeons
- 10.1 inner city storefronts
- 10.2 working class and immigrant audiences
- 10.3 cost 5–10 cents
- 10.4 program of one-reel films
- 10.5 formalized movie distribution and exhibition
- 11 Motion Picture Patents Company
- 11.1 Latham loop
- 11.2 Edison’s patent pool
- Edison
- Biograph
- Vitagraph
- Essanay
- Selig
- Lubin
- Kalem
- Star Film Company
- American Pathé
- 11.3 film distributor
- 11.4 film stock
- 11.5 Trust
- established December 18, 1908
- monopolized film industry
- cartel