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Сamera Obscura (hard to find a specific date)

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Сamera Obscura (hard to find a specific date)

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Latin name for dark chamber, inverted image of the outside scene was cast on the opposite wall.

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An early image projection device created by Christiaan Huygens.

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Earliest version of an optical illusion toy

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the invention of the Fantascope (also called Phenakistiscope or "spindle viewer") by Belgian inventor Joseph Plateau, a device that simulated motion. A series or sequence of separate pictures depicting stages of an activity, such as juggling or dancing, were arranged around the perimeter or edges of a slotted disk. When the disk was placed before a mirror and spun or rotated, a spectator looking through the slots 'perceived' a moving picture.

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British inventor William Talbot made paper sensitive to light which created a negative which could then be used to print positives on other light sensitive paper.

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the invention of the Kinematoscope, patented by Philadelphian Coleman Sellers, an improved rotating paddle machine to view (by hand-cranking) a series of stereoscopic still pictures on glass plates that were sequentially mounted in a cabinet-box

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Eadweard Muybridge made the first film ever of a galloping horse

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Mechanic Edwin S. Porter became a cameraman, director and producer to make The Great Train Robbery. 14 shots cutting between simultaneous events, 12 minute short film which is also the first Western.

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The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh.

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The first feature film is released when the two reels of D. W. Griffith's Enoch Arden are screened together.

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D. W. Griffith's technically brilliant Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, introduces the narrative close-up, the flashback and other elements that endure today as the structural principles of narrative filmmaking.