History of film

First Projector

1879

The first movie projector was in 1879 and was invented by British photographer Eadweard Muybridge. The name of the projector was Zoopraxiscope, it projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion. Series of discs, made in 1892–94, used outline drawings printed onto the discs photographically then colored by hand which was back then.

First Camera

1885

Photographic film was pioneered by George Eastman, who started manufacturing paper film in 1885. His first camera, which he called the "Kodak ". But Thomas Alva Edison was the first to invent a film camera

first motion film

1888

Roundhay Garden Scene, was the earliest surviving motion-picture film. It was a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. Also it was just 2.11 seconds long, it is technically a movie.

who invented the first film camera

1889

Around 1889 Edison picked a team of muckers to work on this project, headed by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson. hey built the Strip Kinetograph, which was a very early movie camera. The camera was a piece of long, flexible film that had been invented for regular camera

Who made the studio

1893

In 1893, Edison's workers built the world's first film production studio. Edison's laboratories to make movies with the Kinetoscope.the studio was built on a rotating platform with a window in the ceiling to capture as much sunlight as possible throughout the day. Thomas Edison built a better-quality studio in New York City and tore the Black Maria down in 1903.

first film movie

Dec 28, 1895

In the 1890s, films were seen mostly via temporary storefront spaces and traveling exhibitors. A film could be under a minute long and would usually present a single scene. The longest movie back then was like 12 minutes long. the cost of a ticket was like a nickel or a quarter

First movie shown in theaters

1905

In 1905, John P. Harris and Harry Davis opened a five-cents-admission movie theater. In 1905, John P. Harris and Harry Davis opened a five-cents-admission movie theater. There were thousands of storefront Nickelodeons

The first color film

1918

The first film shot in color was "Cupid Angling" made in 1918, the Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind. Some film makers still used black and white for shots in thier movies. The Wizard Of Oz was the first full-color movie.

First sound in a movie film

1927

first feature film originally presented, The Jazz Singerit was made with vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films. Took place in Pairs

First video camera

1934

The earliest video cameras were those of John Logie Baird. Mechanical Nipkow disk and used in experimental broadcasts. Kodak introduced a new camcorder format, 8mm, in its first 8mm camcorder, the KodaVision 2000.

First 3D film

1951

3D films have existed in some form since 1915, but had been largely relegated to a niche in the motion picture industry because of the costly hardware and processes required. 3D films were prominently featured in the 1950s in American cinema. The films were in color

Film camera in the 1960's

1966

Kodak brings the Instamatic camera idea to movies. At the time, the era of the 35mm rangefinder cameras was already giving way to that of the SLR. The Kodak camera's started to in prove and film was getting better.