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THE LUMIÈRE BROTHERS
These pioneers, inventors of the cinematograph, recreated the illusion of movement. According to the journalist Yolima Andrea Díaz, the film and its advances in technology date back to representations such as the mid-sixteenth century “camera obscura”, the seventeenth-century “magic lantern”, or Étienne-Jules Marey’s portable chronophotography. -
Astronomers Dream
First recognized video film -
The Jazz Singer
the first film to have synchronized dialogue – and singing for that matter. -
The Wizard of Oz
famously depicted Dorothy’s Kansas in black and white, but then brought Oz to magical life in Technicolour. -
The Thief of Bagdad
thought to be the first to use a blue-screen effect with its rather entertaining ‘genie’ -
Westworld
the first use of computer-generated imagery in the film. Aptly it was a 2-D digital rendition of a robotic cow boy's vision. we wouldn’t want it any other way. -
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
First digital projectors were unveiled to the public. No longer were huge reels of film needed to show a movie at the theaters.