Movie Archaeology

Movie Ancestors | Movie Pioneers

Movie Ancestors (click on any image to see a larger version; click on links to go to available Wikipedia pages)

The Camera Obscura
The Camera Obscura
Phenakistoscope
Magic Lantern
Zoetrope

Zogroscope
Triuniallantern
The Lumiere Brothers' Cinematographe
The Lumiere Brothers' Cinematographe (front view)
The Lumiere Brothers' Cinematographe (side view)

Marey's Chronophotographic Gun
Kinetoscope Parlor
The Mechanism of a Kinetoscope
Edison's "Black Maria" Movie Studio

Gaumont Palace in Paris, France (c. 1912)
Balaban and Katz's Chicago Movie Theatre, 1948
 
Movie Pioneers (click on any image to see a larger version; click on links to go to available Wikipedia pages)


Athanasius Kircher


Jules Marey


Edweard Muybridge
Thomas Edison
Lumiere Brothers
D. W. Griffith