What would you think if I told you that one of the first motion pictures ever shot was  due to a stubborn man and a bet?Well that's exactly what happened.Stay tuned as we Chronicle the history of motion pictures… in this episode we'll Chronicle the birth of the industry fromOne of the first recorded motion picture moments came from a racehorse breeder named Leland Stanford governor and Stanford university founder who claimed that in full stride a racehorse has all four legs off the ground at one time which was pretty impossible to prove with just the naked eye. Leland enlisted Edward muybridge a British American photographer. In 1877 muybridge set up a string of camera's along the racetrack with wires connected to the shutters as the horse made it's way down the track its hooves triggered the camera Individually. He set up 12 cameras in total. Muybridge mounted the images on a rotating disk and projected them onto a screen with a magic lantern.The result of this experiment not only proved mr Stanford right but also set the spark for the motion picture industry.Thomas Edison not wanting to be left behind and also needed a companion to his phonographenlisted a young lab assistant to invent a motion picture camera in 1888.He used clock parts to ensure the film moved through the camera at a regular pace. The camera was named the kinetograph and it imprinted up to 50ft of film at at the rate of 40 frames per second.Because Edison had originally thought of motion pictures as an addition to his phonograph, he didn't commission the invention of a projector to accompany the Kinetograph. Rather, he had Dickson design a type of peep-show technology theentors, including the Englishman William Friese-Greene, applied for patents on various cameras, projectors, and camera-projector combinations   even before Edison and his associates did.Because Edison had originally thought of motion pictures as an addition to his phonograph, he didn't commission the invention of a projector to accompany the Cinematography. Rather, he had Dickson design a type of peep-show technology the Kinetoscope, in which a continuous 47-foot  film loop ran on spools between an incandescent lamp and a shutter for individual viewing. Starting in 1894, Kinetoscopes were marketed commercially through the firm of Raff and Gammon for $250 to $300 apiece. The Edison Company established its own Kinetograph studio  called the “Black Maria”  in West Orange, New Jersey, to supply films for the Kinetoscopes that Raff and Gammon were installing in penny arcades, hotel lobbies, amusement parks, and other such  places. In April of that year the first Kinetoscope parlour was opened in a converted

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