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Louis Daguerre
Louis Daguerre, a french inventor, develops the first practical method of photography by placing a sheet of silved coated copper treated with crystals of iodine iside a camera and exposing it to an image for 5 to 40 minutes. Vapors from heated mercury developed the image and sodium thiosulfate made the image permanent. -
William H. Fox Talbot
A british inventor, William H. Fox Talbot, an english classical archaeologist, made paper sensitive to light by bathing it in a solution of salt and swilver nitrate. The silver turned dark when exposed to light and created a negative, which could be used to print positives on other sheets of light sensitive paper. -
Fredrick S. Archer
The british photographer Frredrick S. Archer developes a photographic process using a glass plate coated with a mixture of silver salt and an emulsion made of collodion. Because the collodion had to remain moist during exposure and developing, photographers had to process the pictures immediatly. -
Louis and Aguast Lumiere
Two french brother, Louis and August Lumiere patent a combination movie camera and projector, capable of projecting an image that can be seen by many people. In Paris, they present the first commercial exhibitation of projected motion pictures. -
Nine leading film producers
Nine leading film producers set up the motion pictures patents compant, and agree not to sell or lease equipment to any distributors who purchase motion pictures from any other company. Kodak agrees to sell film stock onlt to member companies. -
Ten to Twelve Munites
There are about 9,000 movie theaters in the United States. The typical film is only a single reel long, or ten to twelve minutes in length, and the performers were anonymous. -
Jazz Singer
Warner Bro's the jazz singer, presents the movies first spoken words: "wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet." The vita phone method that the studio uses involves recording sound on discs. -
Olivia de Havilland
A Los Angeles court rules that Warner Bro's must release actress Olivia de Havilland after her seven year contract expires, holding that the studio cannot add time to her contract to make up for the periods she was on suspension. This ruling undercuts studios ability to lock actors into long term contracts. -
The Man With The Gold Arm
United artists withdraws from the Motion Picture Association refuses to issue a production code seal to the company's film The Man With The Gold Arm, which was deals with drug addiction. -
The Forbidden Word "Abortion"
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf becomes the first film containing expletives to recieve the Production code seal. Alfie recieves a seal despite the use of the forbidden word "Abortion." MGM dis tributes Michealangelo Antonioni's Blow Up in defiance of a demand that it make cuts in the film. -
star Wars
George Lucas started the axilliary market by betting his toys from his Star Wars Trilogy would fund his movies. The studios and no idea of his profitable and lucrative auxiliary market of toys and licensing could be to a film maker. -
Richard L. Maddox
Richard L. Maddox, a british physicaian. Invents the "Dry plate" process, using an emulsion of gelatin, so that photographers did not have to process the pictures immeditialy. By the late 1870s, exposure time had been reduced to 1/25th of a second. Gelatin emulsion made it possible to produce prints that were larger than the original negatives, allowing manufacturers to reduce the size of cameras.