What was the Year?
Using a chalkboard created “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” which was known as the first animated film.
What was the year 1906?
A device that has two different drawings on opposite sides of a disk and when the disk is spun, the images merge into one.
What is a Thaumatrope?
He used the thaumatrope in to demonstrate his persistence of vision concept.
Who is Paul Roget?
A way of communication to send messages to other tribes who were not close enough to use words.
What is Smoke Signals?
The "wheel of the Devil" and the "spindle viewer".
What are other names for Daedalum and phenakistoscope?
Edison's film, “Fun in a Bakery Shop” was an early example of movie special effects.
What is 1902?
A device that used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc's reflection in a mirror.
What is a Phenakistoscope?
A well-known photographer in California that was hired by former governor Leland Stanford to photograph the governor’s racehorse to help him win a wager that all four hooves of a horse leave the ground when running. He proves the theory by using twenty-four cameras, a system of trip shutters, and high-speed film to create the impression of motion.
Who is Eadweard J. Muybridge?
The were murals that were painted on cave walls that told stories of battles, hunts, and culture around 30,000 BC.
What are cave drawings?
A device that was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud.
What is the Praxinoscope?
Georges Méliès made his most famous film, “A Trip to the Moon.”
What is the year 1902?
A device that consisted of a cylinder with slits cut vertically on the sides. As it would spin, the user looked through the slits at the pictures across.
What is a Zoetrope?
He and his sons introduced the phenakistoscope which was also invented independently in the same year by Simon von.
Who is the Belgian physicist, Joseph Plateau?
A machine that was first patented in 1714 by Englishman, Henry Mill, for writing mechanically letters and characters that were used instead of manually handwriting letters or documents.
What is a Typewriter?
He was known as “The Komikal Kartoonist” who drew lightning-fast sketches.
Who is J. Stuart Blackton?
Cohl created “Fantasmagorie”, an animation using an illuminated glass plate for his table while drawing black lines on paper. The end result was printed in negative to intentionally give the feel of a chalkboard.
What is the year 1908?
A device that was said to be an improvement of the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors, placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned.
What is a Praxinoscope?
He invented the device originally called it a Daedalum and later was renamed the zoetrope.
Who is William Horner?
A device used to send Morse Code that was invented in 1831 by Joseph Henry.
What is the Telegraph?
“The Great Train Robbery” that debuted in 1903 by Edison's former cameraman Edwin S. Porter.
What was the landmark silent movie and was began the birth of silent movies?
McCay brought “Gertie the Dinosaur” to life on film.
What is the year 1914?
A motion picture camera and a projector that was developed by America’s premier inventor, Thomas Alva Edison.
What is the kinetograph and the kinetoscope?
French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic that patented a color photography process that launched in 1907.
Who are Auguste & Louis Lumiere?
A communication device that was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 and within 120 years grew to over 360 million.
What is the Telephone?
An animation in which the title was referred to a fantasmograph, which was an early animation machine similar to a zeotrope created by a French caricaturist, cartoonist, and animator. (you need the name and who created it)
What is "Fantasmagorie" that was created by Cohl?