important filming events in history

By rr225811

  • First motion picture

    William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison, builds the first motion-picture camera and names it the Kinetograph this allowed them to film and put out motion pictures

  • The Edison Corporation

    this corporation establishes there own first movie theater type area where they could charge people 25 cents to see a movie

  • the first private screening

    in france they held the first ever private screening and made a machine that could play the film and project it

  • Edwin S. Porter

    this man created the first western style movie with the great train robbery

  • movie theater

    then the first movie theater inhistory

  • first movie review

    The New York Times publishes the first movie review, a report on D. W. Griffith's Pippa Passes

  • movies gain sound

    Thomas Edison introduces his kinetophone, which makes talkies a reality

  • movie gain magazines

    Photoplay debuts as the first magazine for movie fans to look at while they wait for certain things

  • first animated cartoon

    In his second big-screen appearance, Charlie Chaplin plays the Little Tramp, his most famous character Winsor McCay unleashes Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated cartoon

  • war movies introduced

    technically brilliant Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, introduces the narrative close-up, the flashback and other elements that endure today as the structural principles of narrative filmmaking

  • movie strars

    German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin becomes film's first canine star

  • walt disney

    he creates his first cartoon Alice's Wonderland