APPENDIX D
SIGNIFICANT DATES IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE MOTION PICTURE
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, of France, inventor of photography, born 1789, died 1851.
Desvignes, of France, devised apparatus for animated photography, 1860.
Du Mont, of France, formulated scheme of chronophotography, 1861.
Muybridge, an Englishman, photographs a trotting horse in motion, California, 1872.
Jansen’s photographic revolver for recording the transit of Venus, 1874.
Dr. E. J. Marey’s photographic gun for studying the flight of birds, 1882.
Stern filed patent in Great Britain for chronophotographic apparatus, 1889.
Roller photography invented by Eastman and Walker, 1885.
Eastman, an American, invents celluloid film, 1889.
Edison, an American, exhibits his Kinetoscope at Chicago World’s Fair, 1893.
Robert W. Paul, an Englishman, throws first movie picture on screen at his studio in Hatton Garden, London, early in 1895.
Paul shows movies at the Royal Institution, London, Feb. 28, 1896.
Paul and Sir Augustus Harris win success at the Olympia Theatre, London, with the “Theatograph,” 1896.
Richard G. Hollaman, an American, exhibits the cinematograph at his New York Eden Musée, 1896.
Charles Urban installs his new projector at the Eden Musée, 1897.
First topical film—the English Derby of 1896—was shown by Paul at the Alhambra, London, 1896.