History of the film Jacob Davis

  • sensitive paper

    sensitive paper

    British inventor, William H. Fox Talbot made to light by bathing it in a solution of salt and silver nitrate. The silver turned dark when exposed to light and in turn created a negative, which could be used to print positives on other sheets of light sensitive paper.
  • animated pictures machine

    animated pictures machine

    first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures
  • photographs of motion

    photographs of motion

    British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move.
  • George Eastman introduces film made on a paper

    George Eastman introduces film made on a paper

    American inventor George Eastman introduces film made on a paper base instead of glass, wound in a roll, eliminating the need for glass plates.
  • Kodak eliminates

    Kodak eliminates

    By starting to develop films using its own processing plants, Eastman the need for amateur photographers to process their own pictures.
  • Kinetoscope

    Kinetoscope

    The Lumiere brothers were not the first to project film. The Edison company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures.
  • First cartoon

    First cartoon

    The first animated cartoon is produced.
  • screen credit

    screen credit

    actors in American films began to receive screen credit, and the way to the creation of film stars was opened.
  • Universal Pictures

    Universal Pictures

    Carl Laemmle organizes Universal Pictures, which will become the first major studio.
  • close-ups

    close-ups

    The Bell & Howell 2709 movie camera allows directors to make close-ups without physically moving the camera.
  • Warner Bros

    Warner Bros

    Warner Bros. is established.
  • IMAX cinemas

    IMAX cinemas

    The Matrix Revolutions and a re-release of The Matrix Reloaded could be viewed in IMAX cinemas.