Film History, By Brendan Gillis

By Brendan Gillis

  • First Photograph

    First still photograph is taken by Claude Niepce by using a glass plate.

  • Joseph, Plataeu Phenakistoscope

    Acted as an illusion.

  • Negatives on paper instead of glass

    Henry Fox Talbot introduces with the production of negatives on paper instead of glass.

  • Capture of Movement

    Eadweard Muybridge did this by setting up 12 trip wires for when the horses activated them a camera took a picture capturing the movements.

  • Photographic Gun

    Exposed 12 images on the edge of the circular plate.

  • Kodak Camera

    George Eastman makes a still camera and sells it by the name of Kodak.

  • Kinetoscope

    Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson create a device in which film is moved past a light.

  • Edison and Dickson build a Studio

  • Cinématographe

    Louis and Auguste Lumière design a camera which serves as both a recording device and a projecting device called the Cinématographe.

  • Kinetoscope showed in London

  • Workers leaving the Lumière factory at Lyon

    The first film shot with the Cinématographe .

  • One of the most famous Film screenings

    Customers paid one Franc for a twenty-five minute showing of ten
    Lumière films.

  • Herman Casler and W.K.L Dickson

    The camera and projector they developed were new as they used 70mm film giving them very clear images.

  • The Silent Film Era

  • The Cabbage Ferry

  • A trip to the moon

  • The Great Train Robbery

  • First animated cartoon

    First animated cartoon.

  • Credits begin to appear at the beginning of Motion Pictures

  • Birth of a Nation

  • The Sheik

  • Nosferatu

  • Narook of the North

  • Warner Bros. is established

  • First in-flight movie

  • The Gold Rush

  • Battleship Potenkin

    Battleship Potenkin was a very influential film.

  • The General

  • The end of the Silent Era

  • The Jazz Singer

  • First Drive-in movie theartre

    New Jersey, USA

  • Walt Disney's first full length animated feature

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs