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Eadweard Muybridge
British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move. -
Richard L. Maddox
The British photogrpaher invented "dry plate" progress progress, using gelatin, so that photographers did not have to progress them immediately. -
Etienne Marey
In France Marey develops a camera, shaped like a gun, that takes twelve pictures per second. -
Thomas Edison and W.K Dickson
Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson develop the Kinetoscope, a peep-show device in which film is moved past a light. -
First Western Film
"The Great Train Robbery," the 1st Western film, released. The first narrative film, which included several new editing techniques. -
First movie theater
The first movie theater opens in Pittsbugh in 1905. -
First Comedy Film
"Tillie's Punctured Romance" was the first comedy ever made. first feature-length film produced by the Keystone Film Company. Slapstick type of movie. -
First Cartoon
Walt Disney creates his first cartoon, "Alice's Wonderland."Ths cartoon atracted well over 1 million people. -
Technicolor is invented
George Estman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie. "Technicolor" is the trademark for a series of color motion picture processes. -
Full Length Animation
Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, hits theaters and becomes an instant classic. -
Rating System
he mosion picture creats a rating system, G, PG, and X. In other words age limits to certain movies. -
Oscar
Midnight Cowboy wins the Best Picture Oscar, the first and only time an X-rated movie received the honor.
