| A | B |
|---|
| stock footage | film already shot and placed in a studio's archives |
| narrative film | a story with a beginning, a middle and an end that succeed each other in chronological order |
| panning | a shot in which the camera moves horizontally around a fixed axis |
| tilt shot | a shot in which the camera moves up or down along a vertical axis |
| light after effect | first observed by Aristotle in 300 B.C. |
| persistence of vision | first described by Titus Lucretius Carus in 65 B.C. |
| Peter Mark Roget | I rediscovered the persistence of vision in the 1820's |
| phenakistoscope | the precursor of animated film |
| Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau | I created the phenakistoscope in 1832-34 |
| William George Horner | I invented the first zoetrope in 1834, although I called it a dadalum |
| Pierre Desvignes | I invented the zoetrope in 1860 |
| Eadweard Muybridge | I took the first successful photographs of motion in 1872-78 |
| Senator Leyland Stanford | I commissioned Eadweard Muybridge on a bet |
| Zoopraxiscope | invention created in 1879 which projected photographs of motion in succession |
| E. T. Marey | I invented the first self-contained camera in 1882 |
| Photographic Revolver | the first self-contained camera |
| George Eastman | I patented celluloid film in 1887 |
| George Eastman | I introduced the Kodak camera in 1888 |
| Louis Augustin Le Prince | I developed a single-lens camera in 1888 |
| W. K. L. Dickson | I developed the kinetoscope and demonstrated it to Edison in 1889 |
| Thomas Edison | I filed the patent paperwork for the kinetograph and kinetoscope in 1888 |
| W. K. L. Dickson | I built the first motion picture camera in 1890 |
| Kinetograph | first motion-picture camera |
| Kinetoscope | early motion picture exhibtion device; single viewer "peepshow" |
| Henry Reichenbach | I developed and patented celluloid film strips (roll film) in 1889 |
| Monkeyshines No. 1 | First film produced on photographic paper |
| W. K. L. Dickson | I produced the first film on photographic paper in 1889 or 1890 |
| Black Maria | First motion picture studio constructed in 1893 |
| Fred Ott's Sneeze | first film made on kinetograph in 1894 |
| Fred Ott's Sneeze | first film noted for the medium close-up shot |
| Annabelle Serpentine Dance | One of the earliest color hand-tinted films produced in 1894-95 |
| Annabelle Sun Dance | One of the earliest color hand-tinted films produced in 1894-95 |
| Annabelle Butterfly Dance | One of the earliest color hand-tinted films produced in 1894-95 |
| The Kiss | First film to show a couple kissing produced in 1896 |
| Workers Leaving the Factory | First film projected and publicly demonstrated on Cinematographe in 1895 |
| Lumiere Brothers | invented the projection system Cinematographe |
| Alice Guy-Blanche | World’s first female film director |
| Alice Guy-Blanche | I produced narrative “The Cabbage Fairy” in 1896 |
| “Le Manoir du Diable” or “The Devil’s Castle”. | First Horror Film |
| Georges Melies | I produced first horror film in 1896 |
| “Cripple Creek Bar Room Scene” | One of two of the earliest westerns produced in 1899 |
| “Poker at Dawson City” | One of two of the earliest westerns produced in 1899 |
| Georges Melies | I developed stop-motion photography |
| “Cendrillon” (Cinderella) | First narrative story in 1899 |
| George Melies | I was the first to use double and multiple exposure |
| Georges Melies | I was the first to use dissolves and fades |
| Georges Melies | I was the first to use special effects |
| Georges Melies | I was the first to use time-lapse photography |
