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Pierre Janssen used his "photographic revolver to show Venus's path across the sun.
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Eadweard Muybridge took at least twelve images of a horse galloping to prove to a man for a bet that all four hooves of a horse are off the ground in a horse gait.
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Eadweard Muybridge holds a public demonstration of his Zoopraxiscope, a "magic lantern" provided with a rotating disc with artist's renderings of Muybridge's chronophotographic sequences.
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Edison is granted Patent #493,426 for "An Apparatus for Exhibiting Photographs of Moving Objects" (the Kinetoscope).
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Momijigari, aka "Viewing Scarlet Maple Leaves" was released. It was the first film to be declared important cultural property.
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Starring Helen Gardner, this was one of the earliest American feature films
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"International" was removed from the name. Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is most famous for its annual presentation of the Academy Awards, also known as the "Oscars".
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The era of monster movies and universal horror blossomed to create these gems.
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Alfred Hitchcock's American film debut released in 1940.
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Movies like Forbidden Planet, and War of the Worlds make themselves known.
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Films like Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho began to become popular.
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The space opera directed by George Lucas that people still talk about today.
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The 1980's parody/disaster film was released.
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This 1999 film pushed the boundaries of VFX and created the classic "bullet time" effect.
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The first movie in the Harry Potter series.
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The eight part epic of a magical boy at a magical school, fighting the bad and fighting for the good.
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The collection of Heroes we all know and love.
