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First still image.
this image was made by using a glass plate technique Claude Niepce's photograph, it took 8 hours to expose. -
illusion toy
the Zoetrope was introduced by William George Horner. -
Henry Fox Talbot
photograph production with the introduction of negatives on paper - as opposed to glass -
Movement picture
Eadweard Muybridge achieves success after five years of trying to capture movement. -
Photographic gun.
Etienne Jules Marey, inspired by Muybridge's animal locomotion studies, begins his own experiments to study the flight of birds and other rapid animal movements . The result was a photographic gun which exposed 12 images on the edge of a circular plate. -
chemicals changed
He soon changed the mixture of chemicals that were used for Celluloid and created a new material that he called Photographic Pellicle or film. -
Designs machines for motion pictures.
Thomas A. Edison, inventor of the electric light bulb and the phonograph decides to design machines for making and showing moving pictures. -
thomas edison
Thomas Edison's assistant, W.K.L. Dickson, begins devoting himself to the "motion picture project". He and his staff develop a horizontal-feed motion picture camera. -
Kinetoscope
, Edison and Dickson have their Kinetograph camera and Kinetoscope viewing box ready for patenting and demonstration. -
kinetoscope debut in London
, Edison's Kinetoscope made its debut in London. The parlour which played host these machines did remarkably well and its owner approached R.W Paul, a maker of photographic equipment to make some extra machines for it. -
Functional camera
In March of 1895, R.W Paul and his partner Birt Acres had a functional camera which was based partly on Marey's 1888 camera. In just half a year they had created a camera and shot 13 films for use with the kinetoscope. -
first projector
R.W. Paul continued to improve his camera and invented a projector which began by showing copies of Acres' films from the previous year. -
famous film company
American Mutoscope Company become the most popular film company in America - -
fire in theatre
in Paris a catastrophic fire breaks out at the Bazar de la Charité's temporary cinema killing 121 people. -
35 mm
The 35mm film gauge becomes widely accepted as the standard gauge for motion pictures, although Biograph and other film companies continue to use other gauges. -
patent by edison
Edison files a patent-infringement suit against the Biograph Company.
Edison 's lawyers visit two theater producers and warn them against exhibiting foreign films in America. -
head of motion picture
In Paris, Ms. Alice Guy is named head of motion picture production for Léon Gaumont. She is only 26 years old. -
story told with photography
Edwin S. Porter, working for Edison makes "The Life of an American Fireman" which displayed new visual storytelling techniques and incorporated stock footage with Porter's own photography -
first movie theatre
The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh. -
most famous character
In his second big-screen appearance, Charlie Chaplin plays the Little Tramp, his most famous character -
technicolor
In 1917, filmmakers were experimenting with Technicolor but it still had too many problems to be used. The colors were not very realistic looking -
techicolor
Technicolor is introduced -
disneys first cartoon
Walt Disney creates his first cartoon, "Alice's Wonderland." -
first cartoon with sound
Galloping Gaucho and Steamboat Willie, the first cartoons with sound. -
motion pictures are at the top
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first full lenght movie by disney
Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, hits theaters and becomes an instant classic. -
pushing buttons if montage
Welles pushes the boundaries of montage and mise-en-scène, as well as sound, redefining the medium. -
TV
Television overtakes movies in popularity; -
cinemascope
To counteract the threat of television, Hollywood thinks big and develops wide-screen processes such as CinemaScope, first seen in The Robe. -
hand held camera
typical of the French New Wave use of the jump cut, the hand-held camera and loose, improvised direction, is made for $90,000 in just four weeks. -
west side story
West Side Story is adapted for the big screen -
Mariln Monroe
Marilyn Monroe dies of a drug overdose at age 36. -
germany
Germany produces its first film. -
forrest gump
Tom Hanks wins his second consecutive Best Actor Oscar. He won in 1994 for his role in Philadelphia and in 1995 for Forrest Gump. -
titanic
Titanic crashes into theaters. It is the most expensive film of all time, costing between $250 and $300 million to produce and market. -
top 100 list
The American Film Institute announces its list of the top 100 films of all time -
harry potter
Warner Bros. announces that 11-year-old British actor Daniel Radcliffe will play the titular wizard in Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, the first film to be adapted from the wildly popular series of young adult books by J. K. Rowling. The film is due out Thanksgiving 2001.