Logo simple

Historical film events

By jd249395

  • Roundhay garden scene

    Roundhay garden scene
    A short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. The oldest surviving film in existence. it features a horse galloping for 2 seconds.

  • The kinetoscope

    The kinetoscope
    A motion picture camera invented by Edison and Dickson. the invention was designed to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole. It then lead to the creation of movies.

  • Movie theaters

    Movie theaters
    The first theaters were called nickelodeons. They were called nickelodeons because they costed admission costed a nickel. The Nickelodeon TV channel was named after these

  • Animation

    Animation
    the first animated film was about funny faces. Soon there would be more animated films. Eventually Toy story was the first 3d animated film.

  • Warner Bros.

    Warner Bros.
    It was found by four brothers. Those brothers were Harry, Sam, Albert, and Jack Warner. They're in Hollywood.

  • Disney

    Disney
    The famous movie company founded by Walt Disney and his brother Roy. It started in a small office in Los Angeles. The brothers produced a series animated films

  • The Jazz Singer

    The Jazz Singer
    The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer. A talkie was a movie that had dialogue. Every movie was essentially a talkie after that.

  • Becky Sharp

    Becky Sharp
    A film based on a novel with the first use of three-color Technicolor. Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes. every movie after this had better technology for colors.

  • CGI

    CGI
    2d CGI was first used in the movie Westworld. Its sequel Futureworld used 3d CGI for the first time. Now every movie has CGI.

  • Jaws and blockbuster movies

    Jaws and blockbuster movies
    Jaws was considered the first summer blockbuster. It affected film history in more than one way than another. There were soon to be more blockbuster movies in the future of film

  • Star Wars

    Star Wars
    It was so good that it changed the aesthetics and narratives of Hollywood films. It changed the Hollywood film industry fundamental ways. it changed films to deep stories to blockbusters.

  • Toy story

    Toy story
    Toy story was the first 3d animated movie. It was also the first movie made by Pixar. It changed 2d animation into various 3d animated movies today.