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*Peter Mark Roget's wrote the article "Explanation of an optical deception in the appearance of the spokes of a wheel when seen through vertical apertures" which was the first reference to persistence of vision.
*Almost simultaneously around December 1832 by the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and the Austrian professor of practical geometry Simon Stampfer invented the Phenakistiscope, the first practical device to awesomely create a fluid illusion of motion.
*First film to use a fast-motion series of 24 cameras
*First film to be shown at exhibition
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*Émile Reynaud gave the first public performance of a moving picture show at the Musée Grévin in Paris, the Théâtre Optique. The show, billed as Pantomimes Lumineuses, included three cartoons, Pauvre Pierrot, Un bon bock, and Le Clown et ses chiens, each consisting of 500 to 600 individually painted images and lasting about 15 minutes. The film was the first to use perforations.
Blacksmith Scene (1893)
*First Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition on May 9, 1893 and is the earliest known example of actors performing a role in a film.
*First known film with live-recorded sound
*first film made for the Kinetophone
*Charles Francis Jenkins displays the Phantascope, the first patented Film projector.
History Of The Kinetograph, Kinetoscope And Kinetophonograph... - W.K.L. Dickson, Antonia Dickson, Thomas Edison
*First published book of history on film
*First building dedicated exclusively to showing motion pictures was the Vitascope Hall, established on Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana June 26 — it was converted from a vacant store.
*Housed The Edisonia, the first known dedicated, purpose-built motion picture theater in the world
*First film to be directed by a female director. (Alice Guy)
*First narrative fiction film
*First film to be banned in the United States (New Jersey to be exact)
*One of two first films to be reviewed, the other being An Exciting Honeymoon. (By Variety)
An Exciting Honeymoon (1905)
*One of two first films to be reviewed, the other being The life of a Cowboy. (By Variety)
The Prodigal Son (1907)
*First feature film produced by France.
*First feature film produced in Europe.
*First film to have a score specifically written for it, written by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
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