Friday, February 6, 2009

Important Dates in Film History

1878 – Senator Leland Stanford hires Edweard Muybridge to photograph a galloping horse to determine whether all four of its legs ever leave the ground simultaneously.

1880 – Muybridge projects photographs of a galloping horse in succession with a device known as the Zoogyroscope – later known as the Zoopraxiscope.

1889 – Augustin Le Prince patents a motion picture camera using film carried by paper.

1890 – After perfecting the camera and projector, Le Prince mysteriously disappears from a Paris-bound train. He is never seen again.

1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumiere patent and later demonstrate the Cinematographe in Paris, France. Their first film showing is “The Arrival of a Train at Le Ciodad” Coincidence?

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