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Invention of thaumatrope
On January 3rd 1824 the invention of the Thaumatrope (the earliest version of an optical illusion toy that exploited the concept of "persistence of vision" first presented by Peter Mark Roget in a scholarly article) by an English doctor named Dr. John Ayrton Paris -
Invention of celluloid film
On September 4th 1839 a British inventor, William H. Fox Talbot, an English classical archaeologist, made paper sensitive to light by bathing it in a solution of salt and silver nitrate. The silver turned dark when exposed to light and created a negative, which could be used to print positives on other sheets of light sensitive paper. -
Invention of Kinematoscope
the invention of the Kinematoscope, patented by Philadelphian Coleman Sellers, an improved rotating paddle machine to view (by hand-cranking) a series of stereoscopic still pictures on glass plates that were sequentially mounted in a cabinet-box -
First Motion picture
On August 15th 1878 Eadweard Muybridge successfully captured Motion images of a horse galloping by placing 12 cameras with electromagnetic shutters along a track with thread used to activate them. -
Film in progress
On August 16th 1888 Inventor George Eastman introduces the Kodak Camera. A year later he created the standard transparent film base. -
Giving credit
On August 15th 1911 Credits began to appear at the beginning of motion pictures -
First 3D film
On August 15th 1922 the first commercially 3D film is released called 'The Power of Love'. It used anaglyph glasses with opposite colored lenses creating the 3D effect -
Drive in movie theater
On June 6th 1933 The first drive-in movie theater opened in New Jersey, USA. -
Technicolour
On August 16th 1939 One of the first films to be filmed using Technicolour was the 'Wizard of Oz' in 1939 using a three-strip film process was released -
New wave
In the Late 50's, early 60s: French New Wave films burst on the film scene experimenting with new techniques and style. -
New Hollywood Film makers
In the Mid 1970s a group of American film makers emerge on the scene with a cutting-edge style. These include Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Brian DePalma and George Lucas. -
Disney buys Pixar
On August 15th 2006 The Walt Disney Co. pays $7.4 billion for Pixar Animation Studios.