History of Film-Hannah McCollum

By HannahMcCollum

  • The First Film

    Edward Muybridge settle a bet, if at one point all of a horse's hooves were off the ground.

  • The Invention of the Kinetoscope

    Thomas Edison and W.K Dickson develop the Kinetoscope, a peep-show device in which film is moved past a light

  • The Invention Cinematographe

    The Lumiere brother in France who first did what Thomas Edison initially didn't want to do- devise a projrctor that could show motion pictures on a screen of an audience.

  • Mercury Lamps

    Cooper Hewitt mercury lamps make it practical to shoot films indoors without sunlight

  • The Movie theaters

    There are about 9,000 movie theaters in the United States. The typical film is only a single reel long, ten- twelve minutes in length, and the actors were anonymous.

  • First Animation

    The first animation cartoon is produce by Walt Disney.

  • The First Drive in movie

    The first drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey, USA.

  • Cinema Film brought The Wizard of Oz

    American cinema brought such films as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with The Wind.

  • The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941) and Bambi (1942).

  • Nickelodeons

    During this time, vaudeville was quite popular. In order get one-up the 1900s dawned, vaudeville expanded into Nckelodeons.

  • The Matrix revolution was re-release

    The Matrix Revolutions and a re-release of The Matrix Reloaded could be viewed in IMAX cinemas.

  • Titanic was re-release

    Titanic was re-released in a special 3D version to celebrate the 100th anniversary.