Motion Picture Museum - A Long Ways From Kineographs & Flipbooks

Studiobinder has an excellent timeline of film production. The History of Film Timeline — All Eras of Film History Explained (studiobinder.com); as does Encyclopedia of Britannica with their piece The history of film from the 19th century to the present | Britannica. But the website which goes further back, detailing the patent issue for a phenakistoscope
in 1829, is History of Flipbooks & Moving Image - Fliptomania.

The first flipbook appeared in 1868 when it was patented by John Barnes Linnett under the name kineograph (Latin for "moving picture"). Here we are 140 years later and 56 million people have watched a Facebook Reel that’s a white board spun on a potter’s wheel with very basic animation. However, the fascination of seeing squiggles transformed into a very rudimentary moving-picture causes one to watch it over again as we grasp the fact it started out with non-sensical sketches.

While not newsworthy, nor exhibiting any athleticism to compete with the speed and drama of Lyles or Hocker or McLaughlin-Levrone or Holloway. The animations are certainly in line with most Americans who would run without style or who feel they are running in circles. Enjoy!

Exhibits at The Motion Picture Museum detailing the history of Cinema & Hollywood include:

Stories of Cinema at the Motion Picture of Academia is an ongoing exhibit. Stories of Cinema (academymuseum.org) The Academy Museum's core exhibition, spanning three levels, numerous galleries, and presenting the diverse, international, and complex stories of moviemakers and the works they create.

Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital, presented in English and Spanish, tells the origin story of filmmaking in early 20th-century Los Angeles, spotlighting the impact of the predominately Jewish filmmakers whose establishment of the American film studio system transformed Los Angeles into a global epicenter of cinema.

The calendar of current showings & discussions at the Academy Museum also includes

Weekend Short Cuts: Los Angeles Home Movies

On weekend afternoons this summer, visitors can experience a curated selection of home movies filmed in and around Los Angeles in the state-of-the-art David Geffen Theater (DGT) with the purchase of a museum general admission ticket.

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