Juan Monroy — Outline: Lecture 2, Early American and Early European Film Production

19th Century
- Magic Lantern
- Persistence of Vision
- Celluloid
- Zoopraxiscope
Edison
- Kinetograph
  - motion writing
  - Dickson Greeting
  - Men Boxing
  - Fred Ott’s Sneeze
- Kinetoscope
  - motion viewer
  - parlors
  - The Kiss
  - Buffalo Dance
  - Fire Rescue Scene
  - Boxing Cats
Lumiére brothers
- Cinématographe
- Actualities
  - Workers Leaving the Factory
  - Feeding the Baby
  - Arrival of a Train at Ciotat
  - Snowball Fight
  - Sprinkling the Sprinkler
Vitascope
- Latham Loop
- Vitascope Films
  - Firemen Rescuing Men and Women
Motion Picture Theaters
- Carnivals
- Wax Museums
- Vaudeville
Nickeoldeons
- inner city storefronts
- working class and immigrant audiences
- cost 5–10 cents
- program of one-reel films
- formalized movie distribution and exhibition
Film Pioneers
- Edwin Porter
  - Life of an American Fireman
- George Melies
  - A Trip to the Moon
  - The Black Imp
  - Vanishing Playing Cards
  - Eclipse
- D.W. Griffith
  - Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908)
  - An Unseen Enemy (1912)
Edison Again
- MPPC
- patent pool
- trust/cartel
- crushed competition