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The First Motion Picture Camera
A man named Charles Francis Jenkins creates the first major "film" of a woman dancing with a motion picture camera he invented. Later on, he gives the camera to Thomas Eddison to modify. -
Sound is Added Into Film
"The Jazz Singer" becomes the first movie to sync up sound to a movie using vitaphone sound-on-disc technology. -
Televison
The first television is invented in 1927 by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who was 21 at the time. At this point in his life, he had only had electricity in his home and day to day like for 7 years. -
Steamboat Willie
Walt Disney releases the first animated kids cartoon with sound. -
Video Filming Improves
In the 1930's technology advances, video filming is able to capture audio and movies are now able to be in color, such as "The Wizard of Oz". "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" also comes out as the first full length animated movie in 1937. -
Green Screen
In the early digital world, Larry Butler created the first green screen which was actually blue. Using this technique, a scene is filmed once on a blank colored wall. Then, it is re-filmed with a lens that removes the background color. Then you layer the two and the product is created. "The Thief of Bagdad" was the first movie to use this technique. -
CGI
Sci-fi movie, "Westworld", was the first film to use cgi. At the time it was only in 2-d, but the sequel, "Futureworld" was the first film to use 3-d cgi. Today, most movies make use of cgi because it saves money and budget.. -
The Internet
The internet was created in 1990 by the work of dozens of scientist, programmers, and engineers. They started by using packet switching, "a mode of data transmission in which a message is broken into a number of parts which are sent independently, over whatever route is optimum for each packet, and reassembled at the destination." The internet started to catch on in 1993. -
Netflix
Netflix was created in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in California. It started as a site that would send you a movie by mail for $19.95 every month. In 2007, Netflix spread out and started delivering to TV's and other electronics. Today Netflix is the most popular video service with over 209 million subscribers. -
Roku
In 2002, Anthony Wood founded Roku. He then worked for Netflix, and Netflix invests in Roku. Roku was then created for certain TV's called Roku TV's in 2014. Then, in 2017, Roku becomes a public service, and now has 50 million active accounts. -
Disney+
Disney had a very well thought out strategy to get everyone of all ages involved in Disney regardless of age since the 2000's. When Disney decided to create a streaming service, they already had so many company's that they purchased, making Disney+ so successful. Disney+ hit 100 million subscribers in only two years and today, they have over 150 million monthly subscribers.