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Eadweard Muybridge sucessfully captured motion images of a horse galloping. This was done by placing 12 cameras with electromagnetic shutters along the a track and a thread was used to activated them. -
Inventor George Eastman introduces the Kodak Camera. A year later he created the standard transparent film base. -
Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson develop the Kinetoscope, a device in which film is moved past a light. -
The Lumière brothers built a Cinématographe, a lightweight, hand-held motion picture camera. They discovered that their machine could also be used to project images onto a large screen. -
Georges Melies' 'A Trip to the Moon' is released, marking the first science fiction film and innovative use of special effects. -
Audiences are scared out of their seats by the oncoming train in Lumiere brothers short film ' L'arrivee du train.' -
Credits begin to appear at the beginning of motion pictures. -
First commercially 3D film is released called 'The Power of Love'. It used anaglyph glasses with opposite coloured lenses creating the 3D effect. -
Warner Bros.’s 'The Jazz Singer', presents the movie’s first spoken words. -
Disney's 'Steamboat Willie' was the first Mickey Mouse film released and the first cartoon with synchronized sound. -
Set in 1933, it follows the story of an ambitious filmmaker who coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to the mysterious Skull Island. There, they encounter prehistoric creatures living on the island as well as a legendary giant gorilla known as Kong, whom they capture and take to New York City. -
The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, and Bryan Cranston. In the film, a soldier attempts to return to his family while caught in the crossfire of an ancient rivalry between Godzilla and two parasitic monsters known as MUTOs. -
After the Vietnam war, a team of scientists explores an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden. A washed up monster chaser convinces the U.S. Government to fund a trip to an unexplored island in the South Pacific. -
The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three headed King Ghidorah. -
Godzilla vs. Kong is a 2021 American monster film directed by Adam Wingard. In the film, Kong clashes with Godzilla as humans lure the ape into the Hollow Earth to retrieve a power source for a secret weapon to stop Godzilla's mysterious rampages.