Film History

By chrismccabe99

  • First Motion Picture Camera

    First Motion Picture Camera
    William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison, builds the first motion-picture camera and names it the Kinetograph.

  • First Motion Picture Studio

    First Motion Picture Studio
    The Edison Corporation establishes the first motion-picture studio, a Kinetograph production center nicknamed the Black Maria (slang for a police van).

  • First Theater

    First Theater
    The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh

  • First Disney Cartoon

    First Disney Cartoon
    Walt Disney creates his first cartoon, "Alice's Wonderland"

  • Color Introduced

    Color Introduced
    Although a primitive, two-color process was first used in 1922, audiences weren't impressed by Technicolor until a three-color system appeared in Becky Sharp.

  • Introduction of Widerscreen

    Introduction of Widerscreen
    To counteract the threat of television, Hollywood thinks big and develops wide-screen processes such as CinemaScope, first seen in The Robe.

  • Marilyn Monroe Dies

    Marilyn Monroe Dies
    Marilyn Monroe dies of a drug overdose at the age of 36.

  • Titanic Hits Theaters

    The Titanic goes into theaters as the most expensive movie ever made.

  • Lucas Finishes his Six-moive series

    George Lucas's "Revenge of The Sith" hits theaters as the end of his 6 movie series.

  • Disney Buys Pixar out

    The Walt Disney Co. pays $7.4 billion for Pixar Animation Studios, the powerhouse that created the Toy Story films, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles.