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Eadweard Muybridge made a film considered the first stop-motion film. It was called the Horse in Motion, and it settled the debate whether all four of the horse's hooves leave the ground while galloping. -
Louis Le Prince directed the oldest surviving film called Roundhay Garden Scene. It is a short silent film and shows the members of his family playing in a garden. -
The Edison Company demonstrated the Kinetoscope for the first time in public. Kinetoscope allows one person to view moving pictures. -
The Lumiere brothers’ invention, the cinematograph, was patented. They used the cinematograph to make their first film. -
The Lumiere brothers presented the first moving pictures shown to the public. Their film was called Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory. -
One of the first films was made in color. They added color by putting hand painted frames into the film. The film was called A Trip to the Moon and was directed by Georges Melies.
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Willis O’Brien invented 3D stop-motion and used it in many of his films.
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Walt Disney made the first animated film with sound. His film was called Steamboat Willie. He recorded the sound and music separately and synchronized it with the animation. -
The first three-strip technicolor feature-length film was Becky Sharp. It was directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Each strip of the three-strip technicolor recorded a different color and then was combined to create a full-color image. It also improved the accuracy of the color.