Chapter 23

1. EARLY

2. The development of early motion
picture has served as a major
contribution in modern day films and
movies. With inventions ranging from
the phonograph to the vita
scope, development of early day film
not only serves as a basis for modern
motion picture, but has roots in the
formation of new of entertainment and
movie culture.

3. Phonograph: 1877, a device that captures sound

W.K.L Dickson
waves, used to record and play music
Kinetograph: 1891, first motion picture camera

Thomas
Edison
Kinetoscope: 1893, a early motion picture

exhibition device. Designed for films to be
viewed individually without sound
Kinetophone: 1894, a combination of
kinetoscope and phonograph.
- scenes with accompanying sound The
Kinetophone

4. in length
Short
 Vaudeville Performers were
movies first stars
The “Black Maria”
Loop a longer film
Latham
 Cinematograph Projector Lumiere
Brothers, France
 Vitascope :a movement away from individual viewing.
Projectors cast images onto a wall or screen for a moderately
large audience.

5. 1895 -1905 Vaudeville Performances.
Video: “Historical Footage—Vaudeville Acts 1898-1910
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZo4imTt4Og
Theatre and Tent shows

Penny Arcades
Store Theatres ( Nickelodeons) 1905


6. Three pioneering companies: Edison, Vitagraph and Biograph controlled the

production of motion picture
- A black market of stealing and copying equipment soon grows
- Lawsuits lead to temporary Peace—“Motion Picture Patents Company”
of 1909-1917
- development of the “multireel”
 New Crafts
- New York is replaced by Hollywood Star System

7. craze threatens:
Movie
- municipal aspects of Society
- Playgrounds, libraries, museums, schools,
recreational centers etc.
Problems with Nickelodeons

- Unsafe conditions
- provocative atmosphere
- physical harm
- 1913 Legislation provision of safety concerns & vaudeville acts
were banned if they did not meet specific requirements.

8. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIkLok-BYIk&feature=related