History of Film

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    History of Film

  • First motion picture camera created & first motion picture shown

    Frenchman Louis Lumiere created the Cinematographe and showed the first motion picture.

  • First narrative motion picture created

    The motion picture "The Great Train Robbery" was the firs narrative motion picturw

  • The MPPC created

    Thomas Edison created the Motion Picture Patents Company to have a monopoly on the motion picture industry

  • Motion Picture industry heading west

    Movie-makers headed west to California to avoid the MPPC and improve the quality of the movies.

  • Disney studios created

    Walt signed a contract with M. J. Winkler to produce a series of Alice Comedies, this date is considered the start of the Disney company first known as The Disney Brothers Studio.

  • Mickey Mouse was created

    "Steamboat WIlly" was released, this was the vey first mickey mouse cartoon.

  • The first animated disney movie created & shown

    Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs was the first animated Disney movie created.

  • Disney issues stock

    Disney issues its first stock.

  • Walt Disney Dies

    Walt Disney, the visionary whose pioneering spirit and inimitable creativity made the impossible possible, turning dreams into reality and building the foundation of The Walt Disney Company of today, dies at age 65.

  • First Pixar movie relaesed

    The first Pixar movie "Toy Story" was released.