Thursday, February 12, 2009

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The Great Train Robbery

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/590005/2867129

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Machines for movies

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first8.html

In 1877 Charles Emile Reynaud invented the Praxinoscope, a mirrored drum that gives the illusion of movement using strips of pictures.

In 1881 William Kennedy Laurie Dickson designed the Kinetoscope, a kind of movie projector and ran a trial of a movie called 'Monkeyshines'.

A year after Thomas Edison's invention of the Kinetoscope the Holland Brothers opened the first Kinetoscope Parlor in New York. This was the first commercial exhibition of movies.

In 1895 Louis and Auguste Lumiere patented Cinematographe, a device that could project movies to several spectators at the same time. December 28 1895 they presented the first commercial display of a movie to an audience, running 20 minutes, consisting of 10 short stories.

The Great Train Robbery

Monday, February 2, 2009

The first movie two different sights

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/16989

The first short with a story line is "The Great Train Robbery", and the first feature length film was "The Story of the Kelly Gang." The actors are Godfrey Cass, Nicholas Brierley, Elizabeth Tait, and John Tait.


http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first8.html

'The Great Train Robbery' (1903) is considered to be the first real full length movie, the first narrative Western film with a storyline, and the first real smash hit.