Film Timeline

  • First photo

    Joseph Nicephore took the first known camera photograph
  • Daguerreotype/Photography Birthday

    Shorten exposure time
  • Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché

    Alice was the only female filmmaker thorough 1892-1906
  • First kinetoscope parlor

    Opened in New York
  • Vitascope

    A large electrically-powered projector that uses light to cast images
  • First film projected

    The Lumiere brothers
  • Editing

    George Melies started filming and discovered editing
  • Maltese Cross

    Oskar Messter perfected his stop and go mechanism
  • A Trip to The Moon

    a famous film by George Melies
  • Phi Pheromone

    Taking multiple photos and making into an illusion of movement
  • Jurassic Park

  • Hugo

    A movie inspired by George Melies