Early Illusions
The optical illusion that lets you see a series of images in rapid succession as continuous motion
Phi Phenomenon
A series of twelve photographs of this animal eventually led to the creation of "motion studies"
Horse
This famous inventor along with his less famous assistant invented the world's first motion picture camera
Thomas Edison
In 1894, a Canadian entrepreneur named Andrew Holland opened the first of this kind of business, which charged 25 cents per person
Kinetoscope Parlor (not a movie theater, technically)
This spinning device gives the illusion of movement to images or objects, an earlier precursor to moving pictures
Zoetrope(s)
The world's first true motion picture camera
Kinetograph
These famous French brothers are among the first film makers
Auguste and Louis Lumière (or simply the Lumière Brothers)
This stage circuit was the mass entertainment of the 1880s to the 1930s - before radio was widespread, and before movies came along
Vaudeville
From the Latin meaning “dark chamber”, this is essentially a dark box, tent, or room with a lens or pinhole in one end, and a reflective surface like a mirror at the other
Camera Obscura
In the 1820’s, a French man named Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person in history to...
Take a photograph
Founder of Eastman Kodak
George Eastman
This groundbreaking device created by a famous duo of French brothers could be carried by one person, capture footage, develop the film it used, and then project it
Cinématographe
The first commercially-available, mass-market means of taking photographs in 1839
Daguerreotype(s), Daguerreotype Process
One of the earliest photo projectors (this stuff tends to have "scope" in the name)
Zoopraxiscope
The French illusionist credited with major advancements in technical, and narrative developments in the early days of film
Georges Méliès
The first known female filmmaker, she went on to direct more than 1,000 films, was a pioneer in color tinting, rudimentary sound and picture sync, and ultimately opened her own film studio
Alice Guy-Blaché
This firearm like device would shoot photographs in quick bursts, twelve per second
Chronophotographic gun
The holes along the edge of strips of film is called this
Sprocket Holes
The first person to capture still images of a subject in motion
Eadweard Muybridge
The first film production studio in the world was built here; for 600$ (around $16,000 today).
Bonus points if you remember its nickname!
West Orange, New Jersey (simply New Jersey is acceptable)
Nickname: Black Maria