Film History

  • invention of daguerreotype

    The invention was announced to the public on August 19, 1839 at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris.
  • special effects

    Special effects are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world. Special effects are traditionally divided into the categories of mechanical effects and optical effects.
  • Georges Méliès

    Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was a French illusionist, actor, and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
  • fist film

    Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) The world's earliest surviving motion-picture film, showing actual consecutive action is called Roundhay Garden Scene. It's a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince.
  • kinetoscope and kinetograph

    Thomas Edison receives a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph. Edison had developed the camera and its viewer in the early 1890s and staged several demonstrations. ... Unlike these earlier cameras, Edison's Kinetoscope and Kinetograph used celluloid film, invented by George Eastman
  • The first Kinetoscope parlor,

    in New York. Five machines were placed in a row, and a customer could view the films in each for a total of 25 cents
  • Cinematograph

    Cinematograph or Kinematograph is an early term for several types of motion picture film mechanisms. The name was used for movie cameras as well as film projectors, or for complete systems that also provided means to print films.
  • Cinematograph inventors

    The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière and Louis Jean Lumière, were manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905 which places them among the earliest filmmakers
  • A trip to the moon by:George Melies

    A Trip to the Moon is a 1902 French adventure short film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon and its 1870
  • Editing

    Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information