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first widely available camera?

Daguerreotype

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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

French inventor - who invented the camera, as we know it today in (around) 1816.

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What is a camera obscura?

A darkened room with a small hole where an image is projected onto a surface opposite. (aka pinhole image)

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when was the Phenakisticope introduced? and by who?

1833, by inventor Joseph Plateau

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how was the Zoetrope different from the Phénakisticope? and when was it introduced?

It was a cylindrical version, made as a toy in 1866.

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Kinetoscope

A device that enabled one person at a time to view a film.

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when was the kinetoscope shown as a prototype? and by who?

In 1891 by The Edison Company

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when were parlours for kinetoscopes established?

1893

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when did the Daguerreotype become the world standard for taking photos?

1840 - 1860

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when was the Hollywood Golden Age?

during the depression, 1920s - 30s

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who invented the kinetoscope?

Louis Le Prince, but Thomas Edison made the first useable device.

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what was the Black Maria?

A building designed to control light in order to capture clear images.

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who designed and produced the black maria?

Thomas Edison

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how did it work?

It was a building covered in black paper, it had a big window in the ceiling that opened to let light in to help produce clear images on film. The building was constructed on a giant turntable so that the window could rotate toward the sun throughout the day, so there was a constant supply of light for Edison to produce films.

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when was the black maria made?

1893

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who invented “the cinema”? and when?

The Lumiere brothers, in 1895.

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how long was the average film during this time?

often less than 1 minute long

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what was the first feature film WITH soundtrack? and when was it released?

Alan Crosland’s ‘The Jazz Singer’ in 1927

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when was technicolour invented?

1916

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what was the Cinematograph?

it was a camera and it could also project the images it had taken.

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