12 Historical Film Events

  • first camera and first photo

    first camera and first photo
    First camera was partially successfully built in 1816. Paper film was made in1885. designed by George Eastman
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    Historic Moments

  • First movie ever made

    First movie ever made
    The Horse In Motion was the first movie ever made. It was short/silent. It was about including six cards that each show a sequential series of six to twelve automatic electro-photographs depicting the movement of a horse.
  • Projector

    Projector
    Eadweard Muybridge created the projector. The Lumière brothers invented the first successful movie projector in 1894.The first movie projector was the Zoopraxiscope.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    Edison and Dickson invented a motion picture camera and a peephole viewing device called the Kinetoscope. It was shown in 1893 and expanded.It was filmed in the Black Maria a tar-paper shack studio at Edison's West Orange Laboratory.
  • Nickeldeon

    Nickeldeon
    The nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures. It only cost 5 cent to get in thats why it was called nickelodeon.The earliest films had been shown in peep show machines or projected in vaudeville theaters as one of the otherwise live acts
  • Fantasmorgie

    Fantasmorgie
    Considered to be the oldest cartoon in the world.The very short animation is one of the earliest examples of traditional hand-drawn animation. It was created by cartoonist Émile Cohl.
  • Walt Disney Company

    Walt Disney Company
    Robert Allen Iger is the owner of Disney.They Have Twice Exceeded $4 Billion at the Box Office in a Calendar Year. Walt Disney's First Film was 'Alice's Wonderland.
  • The Jazz Singer

    The Jazz Singer
    It was the first movie with people talking. It was made with Vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology.Al Jolson was starred in it.
  • Becky Sharp

    Becky Sharp
    It was about a resourceful, self-involved, young lady manages to survive a number of setbacks and deprivation. Warner Bros helped produce it. But Selznick International was the people that actually made it
  • Blockbuster

    Blockbuster
    Steven Spielberg's created the first blockbuster which was Jaws. it was the first movie to make $100 million.The first Blockbuster video-rental store opens, in Dallas, Texas. Blockbuster opened with some 8,000 tapes displayed on shelves around the store and a computerized check-out process.
  • VHS/VCR

    VHS/VCR
    A standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes. The system must be compatible with any ordinary television set.The overall system should be versatile, meaning it can be scaled and expanded, such as connecting a video camera, or dub between two recorders.Victor C Rumbeldorf developed a prototype helical scan called a VCR
  • DVDS

    DVDS
    The first dvd was made by Sony,Toshiba. There were released in Japan first. The first movies released on dvd in America was The Bridges of Madison County, The Fugitive, The Mask, The Wizard of Oz, Twister, Unforgiven, and Woodstock.