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THOMAS EDISON'S CONTRIBUTIONS
Thomas Edison's interest in motion pictures began prior to 1888. However, the visit of Eadweard Muybridge to the inventor's laboratory in West Orange in February of that year certainly stimulated Edison's resolve to invent a motion picture camera. Whereas film equipment has undergone drastic changes throughout the course of history, 35mm film has remained the universally accepted film size. We owe the format to a great extent to Edison. In fact, 35mm film was once called the Edison size. -
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HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURES
The history of film began in the 1890s, when motion picture cameras were invented and film production companies started to be established. Because of the limits of technology, films of the 1890s were under a minute long and until 1927 motion pictures were produced without sound. -
THE LUMIÈRE BROTHERS AND THE BIRTH OF MOTION PICTURES
French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière are often credited with inventing the first motion picture camera, although others had developed similar inventions at around the same time. What the Lumières invented was special, however. It combined a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit, and a projector called the Cinematographe. It was basically a device with three functions in one. -
GEORGE EASTMAN
In 1889, the first commercial transparent roll film, perfected by Eastman and his research chemist, was put on the market. The availability of this flexible film made possible the development of Thomas Edison's motion picture camera in 1891. -
WALT DISNEY
Mickey Mouse's official birthday is November 18, 1928. That's when he made his first film debut in Steamboat Willie. While this was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released, the first Mickey Mouse Cartoon ever made was Plane Crazy in 1928 and became the third cartoon released. Walt Disney invented Mickey Mouse and the multi-plane camera. -
RICHARD M. HOLLINGSHEAD
Richard M. Hollingshead patented and opened the first drive-in theater. Park-In Theaters opened on June 6, 1933 in Camden, New Jersey. While drive-in showings of movies took place years earlier, Hollingshead was the first to patent the concept. -
THE IMAX MOVIE SYSTEM
The IMAX system has its roots in EXPO '67 in Montreal, Canada, where multi-screen films were the hit of the fair. A small group of Canadian filmmakers and entrepreneurs (Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, and Robert Kerr) who had made some of those popular films decided to design a new system using a single, powerful projector rather than the cumbersome multiple projectors used at that time. -
COLORIZATION
Film Colorization was invented by Canadians Wilson Markle and Brian Hunt in 1983.
