1. Today’s Topic: The 1 st Motion Pictures (Turn of the 20 th Century)

2. More Free-Time! Turn of the century people now had… More Money!

3. FACTS 1900-1919 Population : 92,407,000 Life : Male 48.4 Female: 51.8 Average Salary $750 / year Unemployed 2,150,000 Union Membership : 2.1 million Strikes 1,204 Attendance @ Movies 30 million per week Divorce : 1/1,000 Vacation : 12 day cruise $60 Whiskey $3.50 / gallon, Milk $.32 / gallon

4. Who made the first movie??

5. Early Films The First Motion Picture Ever Made? The Horse In Motion (1878) Eadweard Muybridge's

7. The First Motion Picture Ever Made - The Horse In Motion (1878) Eadweard Muybridge's groundbreaking motion photography was accomplished using multiple cameras and assembling the individual pictures into a motion picture. Muybridge was commissioned by Leland Stanford (California governor/ Stanford University) to scientifically answer a popularly debated question during this era - are all four of a horse's hooves ever off the ground at the same time while the horse is galloping? Muybridge's time-motion photography proved they indeed were, and the idea of motion photography was born. You can watch the 16-frame footage of a horse galloping by clicking HERE.HERE

8. Early Films Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) – Louis Le Prince

9. Early Films But undeniably the first popular moving picture show was The Great Train Robbery (1903) – Edwin S. Porter

10. 1915: $110,000 to make Made 10 million D.W. Griffith

11. Home Videos First Home Movie Ever Made - Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) The Roundhay Garden Scene is thought to be the oldest surviving film on record. The Roundhay Garden Scene was directed by the French inventor, Louis Le Prince and features some members of Le Prince's family playfully walking around a garden. The film lasts about two seconds.