2. The Movies Begin…

3. A Fascination with Moving Shadows…

4. The Earliest Messing Around with Shadow and Light Shadow Plays Ombres Chinoise (Chinese Shadows) Balinese Shadow Plays (Wayang)

5. The Earliest Messing Around with Shadow and Light

6. Mo-TiLate 5 th Century BC – Chinese philosopher Mo-Ti describes the phenomenon of an upside down image formed by light rays passing through a pinhole into a darkened room. V Aristotle350 BC - Aristotle tells of watching an image of an eclipse beamed onto the ground through a sieve. Leonardo DaVincic. 1490 - Leonardo DaVinci describes a mechanism that would produce this effect. Johannes Keplerc. 1610 - Johannes Kepler refers to a construction that utilizes this phenomenon as a camera obscura. The Earliest Messing Around with Shadow and Light Camera Obscura (“Dark room”)

7. Visual Toys and Amusements: Magick Lantern

8. Visual Toys and Amusements: Magick Lantern

9. Visual Toys and Amusements Thaumatrope (1825) - Peter Roget (US), Dr. John Ayrton (Paris), and Dr. Fitton (London)

10. Visual Toys and Amusements Phenakistoscope (1833) Joseph Plateau (Brussels ) The Zoetrope (Daedalum -- "wheel of the Devil") - credited to William George Horner (1834)

11. Thomas Wedgewood (Britain) Rise of Photography: 1820s and 30s Joseph Niépce (France) Henry Fox Talbot Louis Daguerre (France)

12. Sequence Photograph: Eadweard Muybridge

13. zoopraxiscope

14. Chronophotography: Etienne-Jules Marey Fusil Photographique

15. The Pre-history of Documentary Film Thomas A. Edison Black Maria

16. The Movies Begin

19. The Movies Begin: Auguste and Louis Lumière The Movies Begin: Auguste and Louis Lumière Auguste and Louis Lumière

21. “Reality” Cinema – Newsreels and Travelogs

22. Films of Travel and Exploration Robert J. Flaherty Edward S. Curtis Nanook of the North (1921)

23. Better than Real: The Movies Begin Georges Melies Edwin S. Porter