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Cinematography / Videography History
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Phenakistoscope
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateay, a Belguim scientist, invents phenakistoscope. A spinning wheel that allows pictures to seem to move. -
Zoetrope
William George Horner creates a drum filled with pictures that when spun was mad it look as though the image was moving. -
Praxinoscope
Emile Reynaud invents a device quite similar to the zeotrope, but it uses mirrors instead of slots. -
Chronophotographic
Etienne Jules Marey produces a camera which could take up to twelve picture a second. -
Biophantascope
William Friese-Greene and John Rudge invent the Biophantascope. It was one of the first motion picture cameras and projector which projected slides in a quick sequence. -
Camera
Louis Augustin le Prince makes a single-lensed camera. He later used it to film the first moving picture to an audience. -
Kinetoscope
Thomas Edison and William K.L Dickson invent a one person contraption in which film is moved over light giving the appearance of a moving picture. -
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Woodville Lantham's Eidoloscope Projector
Woodville films the first picture to be viewed by a paying audience, a boxing match between Albert Griffithes and Charels Barnett. -
Cinematographe
The Lumiere family demonstrates the cinematographe, a camera and projector. -
Eidoloscope Projector
Woodville Lantham intruduces is invention to the New York Press. A movie Projector witha a loop to guide film smoothly. -
Appearance of Cinematographe
Lumier brothers pubically reveals their Cinematographe. A small camera/ projector able to project film for a larger screen. This was credited as "the birth of film". -
Chronophone
Lean Gaumont invents the Chronophone, a sycronized video and sound system using an electronic connection. -
Cooper Hewitt
The cooper Hewitt lamps are introduced. They made indoor shooting possible without sunlight. -
First Dog Movie
Rescued by Rover was the first dog movies. -
Animated
J. Stuart Blackton created first animated film The humorous Phases of Funny Faces, which moved at twenty frames per second. -
Chicago Ordinance
Chicago passes a bill to stop "immoral or obscene pictures" from being shown. People showing movies had to have a permit after each movie was reviewed and police were able to ban films. -
Stunt Man
The first movie stunt was a man jumping in to the Hudson out of a burning air ballon. -
Frankenstien
Edison Motion Picture Studios releases the first Frankenstien movie based on Mary Shelley's novel. Unfortunately it wasn't very close to the plot line of the book. -
Disaster Movie
The German movie, Night and Ice, was one of the first disaster movie. -
Gangster Movie
The first gangster crime film was The Musketeers of Pig Alley. -
Fox
William Fox starts The Fox Film Foundatioin. -
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World War I
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Close Up
The Bell & Howell 2709 was developed. It was the first camera to allow close-ups without moving the whole camera. -
Color?
The inventors of colored film development start the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation in Boston. -
Homosexuality
Different From the Others (made in Germany) was the first movie to depict male homosexuality. The Nazi regime would not allow it to be played. -
Colored Cartoons
John Randolph Bray mad the first colored cartoon, The Debut of Thomas Cat. -
3-D
The Power of Love was the first 3-D movie. -
Walt Disney
In 1922, Walt Disney released his first cartoon for Laugh-Gram Studios, Little Red Riding Hood. -
Vampires (not Twilight)
F. W Murnau films and releases Nosferatu: a Symphony of Horror, one of the first vampire movies. -
Hays Code
William Hays wrote the Motion Picture Production code that elimnated swearing, sexual connotation, nudity, homosexuality, and other inmoral activities. -
Monster Mash
Universal releases Dracula starring Bela Lugosi and Frankenstien staring Borris Carlof. -
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King Kong
The famous monkey movie, King Kong, is released. It was the first movie to use stop-motion along with live action. -
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Animation First
Walt Disney makes the first full feature animation movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. -
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Wold War II
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Superheroes
Batman was the first film series from D.C Comics with fifteen episodes. -
T.V Adds
The first movie advertisment on TV i was the Preston Sturge's The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. -
Ninjas
Blood on the Sun was one of the first movie to feature martial arts. -
First Colored Newsreel
The first colored newsreel was of the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl done by Warner Brothers. -
Disney's Live-Action
Disney's Treasure Island became their first full live-action movie. -
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3-D in Color!
House of Wax, starring Vincent Price, a remake of the Mystery of the Wax Mueseum (1933), was one of the first 3-D movies in color. -
T.V Movies
The 1933 King Kong was the first movie telivised. -
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Smell - o - Vision
Behind the Great Wall was one of the first and only movies to be placed with scents released through the air conditioning. -
The Exorcist
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Vietnam
Veitnam was the first war to be televised back in the states. -
Rated M
Who's Afraid of the Virginia Woolf was the first M rated movie with sexual inneudos and cursing to get the MPAA's Production Codes seal of approval. -
Star Trek
The highly succesful science fiction show Star Trek started up. -
HBO
HBO first television programs are broadcasted. -
The Godfather
The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Copala is released. -
X-Rated Cartoons
The first x-rated cartoon, Fritz the Cat, was released. -
Martial Arts
Bruce Lee stars in his breakout role in Fist of Fury. -
Bond, James Bond
Live and Let DIe the first James Bond movie was released.
