History of Film

  • The Start of Film

    The Start of Film
    In 1895 a english man by the name of Edward mibridge started film with a 25,000 dollar bet that when a horse is going full speed all of his legs are off the ground.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    He invented the peephole kinetscope and would make lots of money from them
  • First Film Created

    A Kinetoscope Parlor was the film place made. The films where 30 seconds long and one person at a time would watch the 30 second videos.
  • Cinematographe

    Cinematographe
    Italian inventors invent a projector called cinematographe. They would project 30-60 second videos.
  • Vaudeville

    Vaudeville
    small theaters that featured short skitss, comedy skits, and songs or dance numbers. Dancers where called nickelodeons
  • The First Movie

    The First Movie
    The very first movie was only 14 scence and only 12 minutes. The movie was called The Great Train Robbery.
  • Nickelodeon Theaters

    Nickelodeon Theaters
    Nickelodeon theaters werer making 26 million dollars a week. That soon doubled.
  • MPPC

    MPPC
    They owned all cameras to make movies. If you tried to make a movie without thr MPPC Thomas Edison would come and break all your stuff.
  • The Titanic

    The Titanic
    The titanic was made in 1997 by Michel Bay. The titanic was made based on true events and made 700 million dollars on opening day.
  • Transformers

    Transformers
    The movie Transformers was introduced by Michel Bay in 2007. The movie made 320,000,000.
  • Longest Movie Ever

    The longest movie is called Modern Times Forever. The movie last 240 hours (10 days).