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Horse Race
An english man named Eadwaerd Muybridge placed a 25,000 dollars bet that horse hooves are all off the ground at a certain point while running. He set up cameras across the course to prove that he was correct. He won the $25,000 while also accidentally inventing motion picture. -
Kodak camera
George Eastman introduced the lightweight, inexpensive "Kodak" camera, using paper photographic film wound on rollers. After finishing the roll, the consumer mailed the camera back to the factory to have the prints made. -
Edison's new theatre
Thomas Edison's "Black Maria" film studio was closed, and it was demolished two years later. In its place, Edison built a new movie studio in NYC. -
The first stunt
The first stunt was filmed above the Hudson River. The stuntman had to jump into the river out of a burning hot air balloon. -
The first "talkie"
The Jazz Singer was the first film that had recorded sound. It consisted of a man singing jazz songs and talking in between. The film had about 350 words. -
The first film with technicolor
The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind were made in the late 1930's and early 1940's. They were the first films made with technicolor. -
The peak of Hollywood
The Golden Age of Hollywood was in 1947. It peaked at 4.7 billion theater admissions. -
The first CinemaScope film
The first feature animation in CinemaScope, Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp was released. CinemaScope results in an image that is almost two and a half times as wide as it is high. -
First ceremony in color
The 1966 'Oscars' or Academy Awards ceremony was the first broadcast of the ceremony in color. -
Star Wars
George Lucas' movie Star Wars, made for $11 million, was released in theaters in mid-summer and grossed nearly $200 million on its first release -
Cable Television
Half of US homes receive cable television in 1987. The growth of cable through the importation of distant signals was viewed as competition by local television stations. -
Titanic
James Cameron's Titanic became the highest grossing and most successful film of all-time in Hollywood history. It was the most expensive film of its time.
