Film History presented by Helen Stephenson
Thomas Edison The beginnings of film... Mechanical Similar to still photography Patents on film-making mechanisms Started as business
Showmen and magic
Muybridge’s Horse in Motion, 1872 Zoopraxiscope
Nickelodeon Late that Night in the Bedroom
First films – 1800s Thomas Edison’s Monkeyshines 1 and 2, 1890?Monkeyshines Kinetograph – first motor-driven camera William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, Assistant Kinescope - projector Kinescope Parlor Kinescope
First films – 1800s Louis Le Prince Single-lense camera patented in 1886 Roundhay Garden Scene, 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene
First public showing Paris, Dec 28, 1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory” 46 seconds
First narrative film Edison’s studio The Great Train Robbery, 1903 The Great Train Robbery
Georges Melees Documentaries and narrative shorts, 1896 Meanwhile in France
Georges Melees “The creator of the art of cinema” 538 films
Georges Melies Life