All the films in today's episode can be watched on YouTube
Persistence of Vision
Explained in a 1936 film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_W-kokpCkg
The Zoetrope
Milton Bradley Zoetrope 1866 (Containing images acceptable to many people back then): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG6ywByMAyE
Modern Zoetrope using 3D Printer (Contains strobe sequence): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-5AP5R6gpA
Make your own Zoetrope!: https://rimstar.org/science_electronics_projects/how-to-make-a-zoetrope.htm
Eadweard Muybridge
Horse in Motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRuLp7CyTM
Louis Le Prince
The Roundhay Garden Scene 1888: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAiYFEHI9o8
The Accordian Player 1888: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbJZvtUQvGI
Leeds Bridge 1888: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTlXaqG4VyE
Wordsworth Donisthorpe
Trafalgar Square 1890: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8igdG537rH8
William Friese-Greene
Friese-Greene invents cinema (He didn’t, but this is a scene from 1951’s The Magic Box which is too good not to include!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxHA9U8IHfM
Reconstruction from one of Friese-Greene’s experiments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pTOGmepivg
Thomas Edison
Edison’s earliest films from 1890 onwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRgymD_CO8k
The Lumiere Brothers
First Films 1895: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXX32OLNnpU
Websites
Louis Le Prince's Camera: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.26326273
The History of the Discovery of Cinematography from 900BCE to The Lumiere Brothers: http://www.precinemahistory.net/index.html
The Story of Louis Le Prince: https://www.cinemahistory.co.uk/louis-le-prince/
An excellent blog about early cinema and Friese-Greene in particular: https://friesegreene.com/
","author_name":"Matthew Diamond"}