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Film History

By litabcruz24

  • Wheel Of Life

    Wheel Of Life
    A device was created to create animated pictures, through a slit in the device pictures could be seen moving. This was a rough start to film.

  • Kinetoscope

    Kinetoscope
    Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson create this device which is used by allowing the film to be past as light. More animations can be created using this device.

  • First commercial film

    First commercial film
    Two french brothers, successfully project images that can be seen by a lot of people. Paris is the first place to have this occur.

  • First Animated Film

    First Animated Film
    The first ever cartoon is created "Fantasmagorie" created by Emile Cohl. It is shown in public and is successful, which eventually leads to more animated shorts or such.

  • Actors receive credit

    Actors receive credit
    Before this actors would be completely anonymous and not have any credit whatsoever, but now each actor is properly credited.

  • Universal Pictures

    Universal Pictures
    Carl Laemmele creates and also organized this production company. Which ends up being one of it's firsts.

  • Warner Bros

    Warner Bros
    Warner Brothers is established officially, following many productions, but being most popular. A lot of successful and iconic movies are produced under this name.

  • First Words

    First Words
    "The Jazz Singer" produces the first words in film history, being “Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet.”

  • Gangster Movies

    Gangster Movies
    American Gangster films take over Hollywood, not only are the films popular but also the slang used.

  • Snow White

    Snow White
    Walt Disney creates Snow White And The Seven Drawfs the first feature animated film, which still remains in one of the highest grossing films in history.

  • More Animated Films

    More Animated Films
    With the success of snow white, more animated films are created such as Dumbo, Pinocchio, and Fantasia.

  • Technicolor

    Technicolor
    Technicolor is used more often, especially in the movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell.

  • Hitchcock's Psycho

    Hitchcock's Psycho
    Alfred Hitchcock's iconic, "Psycho" is released. This movie to this day is still known for it's excellency.

  • A new round of directors

    A new round of directors
    During this time more successful and iconic directors emerge such as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.

  • VCR

    VCR
    The VCR is discovered! Now families can enjoy movies at home whenever they want, instead of going to the movies.

  • First computer-animated film

    First computer-animated film
    Toy story is the first feature length computer-animated feature created by Pixar. Pixar makes history and creates plenty of computer-animated films that become very high grossing.

  • IMAX

    IMAX
    More movies are being released in IMAX cinemas and being enjoyed way more with higher quality.

  • Avatar

    Avatar
    James Cameron's Avatar is the highest grossest film in all history. The movie also makes history in other aspects and is extremely successful.