1. Film History presented by Helen Stephenson

2. Thomas Edison The beginnings of film... Mechanical Similar to still photography Patents on film-making mechanisms Started as business

3. Showmen and magic

4. Muybridge’s Horse in Motion, 1872 Zoopraxiscope

5. Nickelodeon Late that Night in the Bedroom

6. First films – 1800s Thomas Edison’s Monkeyshines 1 and 2, 1890?Monkeyshines Kinetograph – first motor-driven camera William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, Assistant Kinescope - projector Kinescope Parlor Kinescope

7. First films – 1800s Louis Le Prince Single-lense camera patented in 1886 Roundhay Garden Scene, 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene

8. First public showing Paris, Dec 28, 1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory” 46 seconds

9. First narrative film Edison’s studio The Great Train Robbery, 1903 The Great Train Robbery

10. Georges Melees Documentaries and narrative shorts, 1896 Meanwhile in France

11. Georges Melees “The creator of the art of cinema” 538 films

12. Georges Melies Life