Early Moving Pictures

Shadow Puppets

Camera Obscura

Camera = Latin for “room” Obscura = Latin for “dark”

Magic Lantern 1644

1) Chimney - provides an updraft for oil burning illuminants 2) Slot for slides - placed between the illuminant and a focus lens 3) Focus Knob 4) Focus lenses - n early lanterns 1 lens was used later 3 were introduced. 5) Door - djustments to the illuminants were made through here 6) Inspection window usually fitted with tinted glass to avoid glare 7) Carrying rail usually made of brass.

Magic Lanterns

Panoramas & Dioramas Robert Barker ( ) A new form of entertainment was shown in 1787

Eadweard Muybridge ( )

Zoopraxiscope

Persistence of Vision Thaumatrope

Phenakistoscope s

Zoetrope Wheel of Life Each slit acts as a shutter

World’s First Photo Nicephore Niepce’s bedroom window

Louis Daguerre ( )

Behold the portrait - day by day I’ve seen its features die; First the moustache goes away, Then the whiskers fly.

Stereoptic Viewers (1850)

Praxinoscope Patented 1867

William Henry Fox Talbot ( ) Invented the negative (tracing paper soaked in chemicals)

Kinetoscope Patented by Thomas Edison used 35 mm filmstrips

Lumiere Brothers Paris Short films of everyday life

Westinghouse Works

New York

San Francisco Earthquake 1906

Birth of Cinema

Le Voyage Dans la Lune Special Effects

Mutoscope 1895

Edwin S. Porter

Flipbook - Kinagora

Nickelodeon