Developers

Willis O'Brien
Willis O'Brien is an American editor who was born on the 2nd March 1886 in Oakland, California, USA. He started his work in Hollywood as a animator for films but his big break did not come until 1933, where he probably did his best work. O'Brien did the special effects work on the set of King Kong. At the time this type of technical brilliance has never been seen before. In the years after Kong O'Brien only other notable piece of work was chief animator on the set of Mighty Joe Young. In 1950 his work was finally recognized as he won an Oscar for best animator, this as well as his work on the set of King Kong was considered among the best of his achievements.

Ray Harryhausen,
Born in Los Angeles, the main event in his early life was when he saw King Kong in 1933. He was so amazed  that the then 13-year-old Harryhausen that he began researching the film's effects work, ultimately learning all he could about Willis H. O'Brien and stop-motion photography. However he wouldn't actually work with the famous animator until 1949 where he was on the set of Mighty Joe young, Although O'Brien received credit for it, it was reported that Harryhausen did 85% of the actual animation. Harryhausen usually worked alone on his films, so this would reportedly take a long time to do. The most famous example was probably his best work, Jason and the Argonauts which took the animator 2 years to do, he reportedly sot 13 frames a day, that's about a second a day.

Jan Švankmajer
There was nothing to tell in Jan early life apart from that he graduated from the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Svankmajer then began working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with film-making after becoming involved with the mixed-media productions of Prague's Lanterna Magika Theatre. He began making short films in 1964, and continued working in the same medium for over twenty years, when he finally achieved his long-held ambition to make a feature film based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

Eadweard Muybridge and Edison

Origin of film
Before we look at Eadweard Muybridge and Thomas Edisons work we must look at other important stages in their line of work. The first thing to take note is that early film is a result of inventors, not artists. inventors sold their ideas to toy makers, they used this theory to create hand help machines to sell to children this was the foundations of film development. some important dates to recognize before we look at Muybridge and Edisons work are:

• 1816 - Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image. 
• 1839 - Over 2 decades later Louis Daguerre created clear, sharp images on silver copperplate, it required 15 minutes exposure time. 
• 1848 - George Eastman developed celluloid film originally created for the still camera, it made motion pictures possible. its flexibility allowed light to pass through for exposure 
• 1882 - Etienne-Jules Marey invents photographic gun, lens in the muzzle paper in the chamber oull trigger and 12 rapid exposures and then eventually 100.

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muggerbridge was born on April 9 1830, in Kingston upon Thames, England. At the age of 20 Eadweard immegrated to America and more specifically San Francisco, this is about the same time he changed his last name to Muybridge as he believed this was its original construction. Muybridge always had a reputation for being a photographer even after his stage coach accident which left him with double vision and headaches. In the late 1800s California Governor Leland Stanford  sought Muybridge out to help settle a bet. During this time, speculation had raged for years over whether all four hooves of a running horse left the ground at the same time. Stanford believed they did, but the motion was too fast for the human eye to detect. this led to Muybridge to consruct a experiment. In 1872 Muybridge set up 12 cameras along a track, tied strings to the shutters which were tripped as the horse ran down the track. His findings supported Stanfords idea but the gab between the shutters left it inconclusive. With futher finding from Stanford however Muybridge was able to construct a move complicated construction which backed his theory, that horses at some points have all four hooves of the ground. Near the end of his life, he published several books showing his motion photographs when he toured Europe and Africa. He presented his photographic findings using a projection device he'd developed called the Zoopraxiscope. Muybridge died from prostate Cancer in 1903 in his hometown of Kingston Upon Thames. His worked inspired the likes Thomas Edison and Etienne-Jules Marey. Muybridge's innovative camera techniques enabled people to see things otherwise too fast to comprehend and people still admire his work to this day. 

Thomas Edison
Born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio,