12 Major Events in Film History

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  • Invention of Thaumatrope

    Invention of Thaumatrope
    the invention of the Thaumatrope by an English doctor named Dr. John Ayrton Paris. This somewhat made the idea of filming and creating a movie this instrument was one of the things that created images. It was a tool that created illusion and the ability to make pictures and to show everyone.
  • Invention of celluloid film

    Invention of celluloid film
    A British inventor, William H. Fox Talbot, an English classical archaeologist, made paper sensitive to light by bathing it in a solution of salt and silver nitrate. The silver turned dark when exposed to light and created a negative, which could be used to print positives on other sheets of light sensitive paper. This tool somewhat introduced how films can be made and created light and made the idea for everyone.
  • Invention of Kinematoscope

    Invention of Kinematoscope
    the invention of the Kinematoscope, patented by Philadelphian Coleman Sellers, an improved rotating paddle machine to view a series of stereoscopic still pictures on glass plates that were sequentially mounted in a cabinet-box. This was the start of film making, films weren't as good as they was now in 2020. Films back then uploaded a bunch of images to create movement.
  • The first demonstration of Phasmotrope

    The first demonstration of Phasmotrope
    The first demonstration of the Phasmotrope by Henry Renno Heyl in Philadelphia, that showed a rapid succession of still or posed photographs of dancers, giving the illusion of motion. This tool created movement and made movies better as it created motion. The motions made movies a bit more realistic.
  • Etienne Marey in France develops a camera, shaped like a gun

    Etienne Marey in France develops a camera, shaped like a gun
    Etienne Marey in France develops a camera, shaped like a gun, that can take twelve pictures per second. Pictures were needed back then to create a movie each picture had small details but very little changes of pictures it was needed to create movement and motion, pictures was the main things that was needed for films like this back then.
  • Coin-operated Kinetoscopes appear in a New York City amusement arcade.

    Coin-operated Kinetoscopes appear in a New York City amusement arcade.
    Coin-operated Kinetoscopes appear in a New York City amusement arcade. A kinescope was created for early motion exhibition device. This device was also designed to create films to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device.
  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery
    Edison Corporation mechanic Edwin S. Porter turns cameraman, director and producer to make The Great Train Robbery. With 14 shots cutting between simultaneous events, this 12-minute short establishes the shot as film's basic element and editing as a central narrative device. It is also the first Western.
  • The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation
    D. W. Griffith's technically brilliant Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, introduces the narrative close-up, the flashback and other elements that endure today as the structural principles of narrative filmmaking. This was one of the movies that came out in 1915 and as one of the really good filmed movies back then. It really impressed everyone how movies became better back then.
  • Technology started to develop

    Technology started to develop
    Technology started being used by everyone and it started to improve everything that is needed to improve like films having sounds and other people loved it. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927. A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology. Sound-on-film, however, would soon become the standard for talking pictures.
  • Films started to have color

    Films started to have color
    the most well-known movies to use color were "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind", both from 1939. However, pre-dating those classics by more than 20 years was a 1912 film called "With our King and Queen Through India", and a 1918 silent film called "Cupid Angling". The most common process was to use dye to tint the color of certain scenes — for example, have scenes that occur outside at night tinted a deep purple or blue color to simulate the nighttime.
  • Films started to advance to theaters

    Films started to advance to theaters
    Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope, VistaVision, and Cinerama, as well as gimmicks like 3-D film. This is also when films started to advance to a major crowd of audience.
  • Films have started to get better

    Films have started to get better
    Genres like drama, horror or action has started to become better and editing has also improved in terms of effects and moves. Color and sound was there and everything that a film needed to have audience watch the films.Historical drama films continued to include epics, in the style of Ben-Hur from 1959, with Cleopatra (1963), but also evolving with 20th-century settings, such as The The Guns of Navarone.