History of Film by Erika Marquez

By erikakmarquez

  • The Horse In Motion

    The Horse In Motion
    Series of six cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, showing a sequential series of six to twelve " automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse.

  • Vaudeville

    Vaudeville
    Small theaters that showed short skit, comedy routines, and song and dance numbers. Vaudeville theaters became nickelodeons.

  • Peephole Kinetoscope

    Peephole Kinetoscope
    Early motion picture exhibition invented by Thomas Edison and William Dickson, designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole.

  • Lumiere Brothers

    Lumiere Brothers
    Created the cinematographe, a projector that would show motion pictures on a screen to an audience.

  • Motion Picture Patent Company

    Motion Picture Patent Company
    Edison and several other companies formed a trust known as the Motion Picture Patent Company, the plan was to own everything, the leading film distributor and the bigger supplier of raw film stock.

  • Nickelodeons

    Nickelodeons
    Nickelodeons were averaging around 26 million viewers a week. The potential was there for making money, creating a monopoly.

  • California

    California
    Film industries decided to runaway to escape the control of MPPC, moviemakers began to arrive to Los Angeles to make their films. The MPPC had so much power they could take /away the equipment.

  • The Jazz Singer

    The Jazz Singer
    The Jazz Singer was the very first film with sound which is called a talkie, a film with sound.

  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery
    The first narrative film, produced by Edwin S. Porter. New techniques in film editing also helped establish The Great Train Robbery as a pioneer in plot-based film

  • Film In Color

    Film In Color
    The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind were the ver first movies made with color. they used technicolor, with they film with multiple shared over the lens to combined them to form all the colors.

  • Blockbuster Era

    Blockbuster Era
    Jaws was the first successful blockbuster film. Big tentpole films were shown to box office, other box office hits were, Star Wars, Alien, etc.

  • Computer Generated Images

    Computer Generated Images
    In the 80s/90s CGI began to incorporated into films. Movies like Jurassic Park and Avatar were the first few movies that had CGI incorporated into the films.