Film History

By Musicislife7

  • Light sensitive paper

    Light sensitive paper
    British inventor, William H. Fox Talbot 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 in turn created a negative, which could be used to print positives on other sheets of light sensitive paper.

  • George Eastman

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

  • Mercury Lamps

    Cooper Hewitt mercury lamps make it practical to shoot films indoors without sunlight.

  • Cartoon

    The first animated cartoon is produced.

  • Universal Pictures

    Carl Laemmle organizes Universal Pictures, which will become the first major studio

  • Television

    6.1957 The cinematic industry was threatened by television, and the increasing popularity of the medium meant that some film theatres would become bankrupt and close. The demise of the “studio system” spurred the self-commentary of films like Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).

  • Gunfight

    Filmmakers increasingly depicted explicit sexual content and showed gunfight and battle scenes that included graphic images of bloody deaths.

  • VCR

    audiences began increasingly watching films on their home VCRs. In the early part of that decade, the film studios tried legal action to ban home ownership of VCRs as a violation of copyright, which proved unsuccessful. Eventually, the sale and rental of films on home video became a significant “second venue” for exhibition of films, and an additional source of revenue for the film industries

  • Copyright

    Saw the beginning of a growing problem of digital distribution to be overcome with regards to expiration of copyrights, content security, and enforcing copyright. There is higher compression for films, and Moore’s law allows for increasingly cheaper technology.

  • 3D

    onward 3D films gained increasing popularity with many other films being released in 3D. The best critical and financial success was the feature film animation of Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar’s Toy Story 3.