1860-1869
1861 Coleman Sellers patents the kinematoscope, a device that let you see a series of stereoscopic images mounted on a spinning wheel that, moved at high speed, created the illusion of movement. The images where seen inside a box with a stereoscopic viewer. Henry Désiré Du Mont builds a camera to try to photograph different sequences of a body in motion. 1864 Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron designs and patents a photographic camera with multiple lenses with which it is possible to photograph the different stages of a moving body. 1866 English engineer J. Beale creates the Choreutoscope, a device that uses a crank handle with a Maltese cross to slide a glass plate with six images painted on it across the light source, thus creating the illusion of movement. >> Watch video Beale's Choreutoscope (La llum del cinema series). >> Watch video Beale's Choreutoscope.
| 1861 Sir James Clerk Maxwell achieves the first colour photograph by separating negatives, which he later projected with RGB filters. 1864 Woodburytype. Photomechanical process patented by Thomas Woodbury.
| Amateur Film It begins in the 1890s >> | Television and video >> 1862 Giovanni Caselli invents the pantelegraph, a device capable to transmit still images through an electric cable.
| 1860 Antonio Meucci demonstrates his invention, the telephone, to the public.
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