Film History

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  • Daguerreotype

    Robert Cornelious uses Louis Daguerre's camera to take the first picture
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    FIlm Form

  • Eadward Muybridge

    Took a series of pictures of a horse running. The cames were tied with trip wires. Proved that a a trotting horse momentarilly has all four feet off the ground at once.

  • The Kinetoscope

    Device used to watch film through a peephole. Was not a movie projector but led up to it. Invented by Thomas Edison and William Dickson

  • Kinetograph was invented

    William DIckson and Thomas Edison built the first motion picture camera and named the kinetograph.

  • Kinetophone Invented

    Combination of both a kinetoscope and a photograph

  • Black Maria

    The Black Maria was the first motion picture studio

  • Cinematograph Invented

    The Lumiere brother invented the cinematograph, which was a mix of the camera and a projector.

  • Cabbage Fairy

    One of the first narrative films made

  • Henry Miles

    Sets up the first film exchange, allows people to rent and barter films instead of buying them

  • A Trip to the Moon

    One of the more iconic images in cinema history

  • The Great Train Robbery

    Used Editing to create multiple shots. Was the first western movie

  • Nickelodeon (Movie Theatre)

    Harry Davis opens the first nickelodeon in Pittsburgh

  • Universal Pictures

    Carl Laemmle organizes Universal Pictures, this soon becomes the first major studio

  • The Little Tramp

    Charlie Chapmans first film. his most famous movie

  • Paramount Pictures

    Paramount Pictures is founded

  • Lincoln Motion Picture Company

    Company is founded. Was the first African-American owned studio

  • Birth of a Nation

    First Racist FIlm. Depicts the KKK as the protagonist (good guys) and black men as the antagonist (bad guys)

  • The Sheik

    Based on one of the best selling romantic novels

  • Lee DeForrest

    Combines both pictures and sound on a film strip

  • Nosferatu

    One of the first and most influential horror films

  • Nanook of the North

    Was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant

  • Alice in Wonderland

    Disney Creates his first cartoon

  • Warner Brothers

    Warner Bros established

  • Battleship Potemkin

    Created by Sergei Eisenstein. Video aboard a battleship turning to horror. One of the Greatest propoganda of its time

  • The Gold Rush

    Another movie starring Charlie CHapman as The Little Tramp

  • The General

    Has Buster Keaton in it. Said to be one of the greatest silent films ever made.

  • The Jazz Singer

    The First Film that audiences can hear and see the man on the screen

  • MIkey Mouse

    The charector Mickey Mouse was introduced in the cartoon of Steamboat WIlly

  • Academy Awards

    The first Academy Awards is created, The first motion picture to recieve the award is the 1927 film, Wings

  • Drive-in Movies

    In New Jersey, the first movie theatre was made where you can stay in your car and watch.

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Disneys first full length feature

  • 3-D and Cinerama

    Hollywood introduces Cinerama and 3-D.Three different projectors shoot on a wide screen.

  • Smell-O-Vision

    System that released fragrence during the film so that the viewer could smell what was happening in the movie