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Motion Pictures timeline
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The first machine patented in the United States
The first machine petented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was called the "Wheel of Life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit on the zoopraxiscope. However, this was a far cry from motion pictures as we know them today. Modern motion pictures making began with the invention of the motion picture camera. -
completion of first phonograph
August 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Edison's completion of the model for the first phonograph. It is more likely, however, that work on the model was not finished until November or December of that year, since he did not file for the patent until December 24, 1877. He toured the country with the tin foil phonograph, and was invited to the White House to demonstrate it to President Rutherford B. Hayes in April 1878. -
The lumerie brother
Inventors of the cinematographic process. -
Thomas Edison's assistant
Thomas Edison's assistant, W.K.L. Dickson, begins devoting himself to the "motion picture project" -
Edison Company
The Edison Company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. -
film studio
Edison builds a film studio on the grounds of his laboratories in New Jersey to produce films for his kinetoscope machines. The studio is called "The Black Maria", a slang term for a police patrol wagon that the studio is said to resemble. -
Holland brothers
The Holland brothers open the first kinetoscope parlor in New York City on April 14. -
Lumiere
Lumiere and his brother were the first to present projected, moving, photgraphic, pictures to a paying audience of more than one person. -
Improved Vitascope
Later in 1896, Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S.. -
Charles Raff and Frank Gammon
Charles Raff and Frank Gammon buy the Jenkins-Armat phantoscope from Thomas Armat on behalf of Edison. They rename the projector " Edison's Vitascope", and it is hailed as Edison's latest invention. -
The American Mutoscope Company
The American Mutoscope Company (later renamed the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and frequently called the "Biograph Company"), marketing their own films and their new biograph projector, becomes the foremost motion picture company in the U.S. -
Columbia Pictures
Harry Cohn, his brother Jack Cohn, and Joe Brandt found Columbia Pictures. -
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse's official birthday is November 18, 1928 when he made his first film debut in Steamboat Willie. This was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released. However, the first Mickey Mouse Cartoon ever made was Plane Crazy in 1928, it was the third cartoon released. -
IMAX
The IMAX system has its roots in EXPO '67 in Montreal, Canada, where multi-screen films were the hit of the fair. -
Film Colorization
Film Colorization invented by Canadians Wilson Markle and Brian Hunt in 1983.
