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first film
Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short silent actuality film. It is believed to be the oldest surviving film in existence. -
first motion picture studio
The Edison Corporation establishes the first motion-picture studio.
The black maria is slang for a (police van) -
first private screening
In France, Auguste and Louis Lumière held the first private screening. -
first western
The Great Train Robbery. With 14 shots cutting between simultaneous events, this 12-minute short establishes the shot as film's basic element and editing as a central narrative device. It is also the first Western. -
Thomas Edison introduces his kinetophone
was an early attempt by Edison and Dickson to create a sound-film system. Reports suggest that in July 1893, a Kinetoscope accompanied by a cylinder phonograph had been presented at the Chicago World's Fair. -
Walt Disney creates his first cartoon
Alice's Wonderland is a 1923 Walt Disney short silent film, produced in Kansas City, Missouri. The black-and-white short was the first in a series. -
Casablanca premieres in theaters.
Laszlo is a famed rebel, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country. -
Hollywood thinks big and develops wide-screen processes such as CinemaScope
CinemaScope is an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953 to 1967, for shooting widescreen movies -
marilyn monroe dies
marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic "blonde bombshell" -
Midnight Cowboy wins the Best Picture Oscar
joe buck quits his job and heads for New York City, thinking he'll latch on to some rich dowager. -
Star Wars hits theaters
It is the second highest grossing film. -
Steven Spielberg wins his first directing Oscar.
After joining the Nazi party primarily for political expediency, he staffs his factory with Jewish workers for similarly pragmatic reasons.
