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Daguerreotype
Louis J.M. Daguerre invents the daguerreotype. Robert Cornelius takes the first picture of himself. -
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Film History
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Eadweard Muybridge
Took a series of pictures of a horse running. The cames were tied with trip wires so when the horse broke each wire a picture would be taken.Proved that a a trotting horse momentarilly has all four feet off the ground at once. -
The Zoopraxiscope
Created by Eadweard Muybridge. Considered the first movie projector. Projected pictures from glass disks that rotated fast enough to make it seem like the pictures were moving. -
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 -
Invention of the Kinetograph
Thomas Edison and William Dickson built the first motion picture camera named the kinetograph. -
Invention of the Kinetophone
A combination of both a kinetoscope and a phonograph. -
Black Maria
The first motion picture studio nicknamed the Black Maria. Light came from an aperture in the roof and the entire studio could be rotated to catch the light. -
Invention of the Cinematograph
The Lumiere brothers invented the cinematograph, a combination of both a camera and a projector. -
Cabbage Fairy
One of the first narrative fiction films ever made. -
Henry Miles
Sets up the first film exchange, allowing exhibitors to rent films instead of buying them. -
A Trip to the Moon
One of the most iconic images in the history of cinema. -
The Great Train Robbery
The first western and had editing as a central narrative device -
Nickelodeon (Movie Theater)
Harry Davis opens the first nickelodeon in Pittsburgh. -
Famous Players Film Company
Changed name to Paramount Pictures on 1914. One of the largest film and television production and distribution studio. -
Universal Pictures
Carl Laemmle organizes Universal Pictures, which became the first major studio. -
The Little Tramp
Charlie Chaplin plays the little tramp, his most famous character -
Lincoln Motion Pictures Company
The first African-American owned studio, The Lincoln Motion Picture Company is founded. -
Birth of a Nation
Was a racism film, showed black men and the bad guys and the KKK as the good guys. -
The Sheik
Was a silent romantic drama film. Besed on the best selling romance novel. -
Lee DeForrest
Lee DeForrest demonstrates a method for recording sound on the edge of a film strip. -
Nosferatu
one of the most forebonding and influential horror film -
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's Wonderland
Walt Disney creates his first cartoon. -
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. is established. An American producer of film, television and music. -
Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein makes Potemkin, a revolutionary portrait of mutiny aboad a battleship. Hailed as one of the most influential propaganda of all time. -
The Gold Rush
Silent film comedy starring Chalie Chaplin as the Little Tramp, his most memorable character. -
The General
One of the greatest silent films ever made. Starring Buster Keaton. -
The Jazz Singer
The first film in which the audience can hear the actors speaking. -
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse is introduced in the cartoon Steamboat Willie. -
The Academy Awards
The first Academy Awards were announced, with the award for the best picture in 1927 going to Wings. -
Drive-In Movie Theater
The first drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey. -
Becky Sharp
Technicolor introduces a three-color process in the film Becky Sharp. -
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Walt Disney's first full length feature. -
3-D and Cinerama
Hollywood introduces Cinerama and 3-D. Widescreen process that projected images from 3 different projectors into a curved screen. -
Smell-O-Vision
System that released odor during the projection of a film so that the viewer could "smell" what was happening in the movie.