12 Historical Film Events

  • Film

    Film
    The first film ever created which was technically a bunch of cameras lined up in a sequence snapshotting a galloping horse to see if at one point would stop touching the ground.
  • Camera

    George Eastman the invetor of the first lightweight inexpensive Kodak Camera which used film that was wrapped around rollers.
  • The first action movie ever produced.

    This was the first moive ever shot that had an actual plot and displays story telling. The movie lasted about 12 mins and was considered an Epic compared to other films at the time.
  • Frank Hanaway

    The first stunt man , who was filmed in The Great Train Robbery for his ability to fall off a moving horse without getting hurt. He was a calavryman in the army.
  • Humorous Phases of Funny Faces.

    Humorous Phases of Funny Faces.
    The very first cartoon film that lasted 3 minutes long, Historians regard this as the very first animated film on standard film
  • Tillie's Punctured Romance

    Tillie's Punctured Romance
    The first ever feature length comedy which included superstar Charlie Chapliln. This was the only film to include Chaplin and was also Keyston Movie Companys first production.
  • Warner Brother Studios

    Warner Brother Studios
    Warner Bros is has become an established movie producing company.
  • Sound

    Sound
    "The Jazz singer" was the first musical film that also had scyrchonoized speech dialogues. Warner Bros. Company proudeced this film when they were low on a budget with their vitaphone sound on disc system.
  • The first movie to be filmed in Technicolor was Becky Sharp.

    The first movie to be filmed in Technicolor was Becky Sharp.
    Backy Sharp was the firt feature film to have use the technicolor process which is the creation of 3 strips of each primary color.
  • Largest Indoor Set

    Largest Indoor Set
    The largest indoor set ever constructed was the climax scene from Close Encounters with the Third Kind directed by Steven Speilberg for the UFO landing.
  • CGI

    CGI
    Toy Story was the very first film to be completely filmed in entirely Computer Generated Imagery , over 800,000 hours went into developing math equations to coordiante actions from the computer to film.
  • Cinemascope

    Cinemascope
    The Robe was the first movie ever shot from a cinemascope.