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 Worlds First Photo Nicephore Niepces bedroom window Louis Daguerre ( ) Behold the portrait - day by day Ive 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 1904 New York San Francisco Earthquake 1906 Birth of Cinema Le Voyage Dans la Lune Special Effects Mutoscope 1895 Edwin S. Porter Flipbook - Kinagora Nickelodeon
