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the first "moving image"
it started as a group of people betting on wether a horse gallops with all its legs off the ground. the men then created a device that rapidly took photos that would make the image seem to move when quickly scrolling through the frames. -
first live action film
known as "the great train robbery", it was a 12 minute movie with 14 scenes. this film introduced the technique of camera angles and positioning. -
the first cartoon
made by emile cohl, "fantasmagori" was a hand drawn stop motion film that made a creature look as it were moving. -
the first stunt
the movie this was performed in is unknown, however the stunt was a man jumping out of a hot air balloon and landing in the hudson river -
the first comedy
featuring the famous charles chaplin, his first movie to star in was called making a living -
warner bros.
one of the industries biggest companies was established as the the field was booming. -
the tv
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird created a working prototype of a tv called the prototype video systems. he added something device known as the nipkow disk that allowed silhouetted images to "move". -
the first audio film
"the jazz singer" was an american made musical where there was a recorded score of the music and and well aligned lip synchronous choir. this inevitably led to the decline of the silent era. -
the invention of technicolor
this added color by making layers of green, red, and blue and making them parallel to make color. -
the first colored broadcast
the broadcast would have come out sooner, but an an unsuccessful lawsuit delayed the launch -
IMAX
this utilized projectors and put the film on a massive screen with surround sound to enhance the experience of watching a movie. -
computer animation
it was introduced in the movie called tron, where the editors would use computers to digitally insert images or alteration in the film. -
toy story
toy story was the first movie ever to be made entirely on a computer. -
CGI
this was an advancement of computer animation known as CGI, or computer generated images. this technology allowed editors to double the detail and depth of a created image.
