This talk about Thams and his invention. For example he came out with the vitascope, kinetograph, kinetoscope, vitascope. He also own motion picture Patent company too.
1875 at Palo Alto, California, Le Prince saw a series of photographs taken by Eadweard Muybridge, and he was attracted to the idea of producing a series of photographs motion pictures.
"Thaumatropes are the first of many optical instruments developed to study persistence of vision. They typically consist of a cardboard disc with thread attached on the left and right sides. On each side of a round piece of card stock is a picture, painting or illustration. The images are designed and placed so that when the disc is spun by rolling the threads back and forth between the fingers and thumbs. The faster the disc is spun back and forth, the more the two pictures appear as one!"
They were known by many different names at the time, some borrowed from legitimate theaters or famous monikers to give them style -- the Bijou Dream, the Tivoli, or the Edison. Some were dank holes that crawled with roaches and reeked with disinfectant.
Date of Birth 7 January 1873, Ricse, Austria-Hungary. [now in Hungary] Date of Death 10 June 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA Height 5' (1.52 m) Mini Biography Adolph Zukor's success began with penny arcades, offering moving peepshows that evolved into nickelodeon theaters that offered longer, larger moving pictures.
Date of Birth Date of Death 21 January 1938, Paris, France Birth Name Marie Georges Jean Méliès Mini Biography Georges Melies, a professional magician by training, first saw the new "moving pictures" in 1895. Little over a year later, Melies was filming and projecting his own creations.
Return to Adherents.com's Guide to Movies < Return to Famous Episcopalians Hannibal Goodwin, an important figure in the development of the technology used to create motion pictures, was an Episcopalian minister.From: Scott Wise, The Film 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential People in the History of the Movies, Citadel Press Book/Carol Publishing Group: Secaucus, New Jersey (1998), pages 4-5: Dickson immediately created several key alliances that would help him proceed.
People & Events George Eastman George Eastman was born on July 12, 1854, in Waterville, New York. His father, George Washington Eastman, ran a business school where he taught bookkeeping and penmanship, but had to work a second job selling fruit trees and roses, which forced him to split his time between Waterville and Rochester, New York.
The Magic Lantern that you will see at this performance dates from the 1870 - 1880 period. At this time the art of projection of both still and moving images reached the zenith of technical brilliance during the Victorian era. The most exquisite of these lantern slides were completely hand-painted, but photographic images were also used.
First Motion Pictures "I'm going to make a name for myself. If I fail, you will never hear of me again."-Eadweard Muybridge, ca. 1852 Animated horses galore: Animation of the man riding a jumping horse Animation of a galloping horse Animation of a cantering horse Eadweard Muybridge was born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1830.