Film History

  • Eadweard Muybridge motion horse

    Eadweard Muybridge motion horse
    Eadweard Muybridge photographed a horse using static cameras
  • Etienne Jules Marey, Shooting film

    Etienne Jules Marey, Shooting film
    Marey invented a camera looked like a gun. It could take twelve photos per second of moving humans
  • Paper base film

    George Eastman introduces film made on a paper base instead of glass, wound in a roll, eliminating the need for glass plates.
  • Roundhay Garden

    Roundhay Garden
    Louis le Prince's Roundhay Garden Scene is regarded as the first real film
  • Kinetoscope

    Kinetoscope
    first movie picture projector
  • 35mm film

    a vertical feed motion picture camera which became the basis for 35mm film.
  • Black Maria

    The worlds first film production studio aka "Americas first movie studio"
  • The Fathers of Modern Film

    Lumiere brothers louis and Auguste creat "exiting the factory"
  • Le Manoir du Diable

    Le Manoir du Diable
    aka Manor/House of the Devil
    Created my Georges Melies,the father of special movie studio that used artifical illumination
  • Kodak

    Invented by American inventor Eastman. Edwin Porter worked for Eastman
  • The Life of an American Fireman

    The Life of an American Fireman
    silent film. Depicts the rescue of a woman and child from a burning building
  • A trip to the moon

    Continuous narrative over seven scenes,rendered in a total of nine shots
  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery
    used cross cutting, double exposure, composite editing, camera movement and on location shooting. Some points were also hand colored in certain scenes
  • nickelodeons

    nickelodeons
    Harry Davis opens the first nickelodeon in Pittsburgh
  • First All African American Movie

    first film with only african american actors. "A Fool and his Money"
  • Movies begin to show in theaters

    movies begin to show in theaters rather than nickelodeons
  • Birth of a Nation

    silent film.created by D.W. Griffith. considered a racist film
  • Walt Disney's First Cartoon

    Walt Disney's First Cartoon
    little red ridinghood was released
  • Warner Brothers

    Warner Brothers
    Warner brothers created a corporation from their skills of film production
  • Sound

    Warner brothers add sound to movies