Early Cinema is an introduction to the first decade of motion pictures This site focuses on the early pioneers of this new art form and the prehistory of cinema with experiments carried out by Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Marey In addition you can also find out about the technology which helped shape film history with many standards and processes which are still in use today A timeline looks at the major events between the 1820s and 1905 and includes dates and details of the first projected film presentation and much more A detailed A to Z which is continually added to includes some of the more well known elements of early cinema and some not so well known