History Of Film

  • How It All Started

    The film empire started with a $25,000 bet at a horse race. One man placed the bet that while a horse is running all four of its feet would be of the ground at once. So they set up a bunch of cameras in a line and took different pictures of the horse racing.
  • Zoopraxiscope

    Created by Eadweard Muybridge this device is what is used to actually project the film onto a screen for you to be able to see it
  • Thomas Edison

    Not the inventor of film but he did play a big part in making the film industry rise up with he's short films and epic films like The Great Train Robbery.
  • Strip Kinetograph

    In 1889 Thomas Edisons workers created a device called Strip Kinetograph something like a camera but not exactly.
  • Cinematographic

    The first ever film was in really just a 30-60 second film but in France created by the Lumière brothers in 1895.
  • First Epic Film

    Created in 1903 by Edison Studios. The Great Train Robbery was a full twelve minutes long! Compared to movies this days that was long back then.
  • Nickelodeon

    Even though its a very popular TV show it was actually created in 1905 for a show in the middle of a film.
  • Hollywood

    The reason it started in Hollywood was because the weather there is a lot more better for making films
  • Sound In Film

    In 1927 a film The Jazz Singer was the first film with sound in it. the name of it was Vitaphone.
  • Disneys Rise

    As most people know Diseny is one of the best if not the best movie industry. There first ever movie was a classic called Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.
  • Color In Film

    In 1918 one of the first films with color was created. The Wizard Of Oz was a breakthrough in the film industry.
  • New York

    Even though New York is a popular place and it would make sense to film a ton of movies there back in the day they didn't because of the bad lighting it gave off and the fog it always had.