History of Film

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  • The first motion film

    The first motion film
    In 1888 the first ever film was made, and it was all because of a bet. The bet was to see all for legs on a horse would get off the ground.

  • Special Effects

    Special Effects
    In 1895, Alfred Clark created what is commonly accepted as the first-ever motion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume.

  • Motion Pictures

    Motion Pictures
    Cellulose nitrate motion picture film was introduced

  • Animation

    Animation
    Historically and technically, the first animated film (in other words, the earliest animated film ever printed on standard motion-picture film) was Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906), also made by J. Stuart Blackton. It was the earliest surviving example of a drawn animated film.

  • Cellulose

    Cellulose
    Cellulose nitrate 35 mm roll film; aerial film became available

  • Cellulose Diacetate

    Cellulose Diacetate
    Cellulose diacetate (a specific type of “cellulose acetate”) was introduced for 16 mm
    film by Eastman Kodak Company (cellulose nitrate was never used for 16 mm film)

  • Sheet Film

    Sheet Film
    – Cellulose diacetate sheet film was introduced by Eastman Kodak Company

  • First Sound

    First Sound
    The earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927. A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology.

  • X-ray

    X-ray
    Last year Eastman Kodak Company manufactured cellulose nitrate x-ray film

  • First Color

    First Color
    The most well-known movies to use color were "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind", both from 1939. However, pre-dating those classics by more than 20 years was a 1912 film called "With our King and Queen Through India", and a 1918 silent film called "Cupid Angling".

  • Polyester

    Polyester
    First polyester-based films (most commonly found in: sheet films after 1970s, x-ray films
    after 1955, aerial films after 1960s)

  • CGI

    CGI
    2D CGI was first used in movies in 1973's Westworld, though the first use of 3D imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld (1976), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.