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First Photograph
First still photograph is taken by Claude Niepce by using a glass plate. -
Joseph, Plataeu Phenakistoscope
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Negatives on paper instead of glass
Henry Fox Talbot introduces with the production of negatives on paper instead of glass. -
Capture of Movement
Eadweard Muybridge did this by setting up 12 trip wires for when the horses activated them a camera took a picture capturing the movements. -
Photographic Gun
Exposed 12 images on the edge of the circular plate. -
Kodak Camera
George Eastman makes a still camera and sells it by the name of Kodak. -
Kinetoscope
Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson create a device in which film is moved past a light. -
Edison and Dickson build a Studio
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Cinématographe
Louis and Auguste Lumière design a camera which serves as both a recording device and a projecting device called the Cinématographe. -
Kinetoscope showed in London
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Workers leaving the Lumière factory at Lyon
The first film shot with the Cinématographe . -
One of the most famous Film screenings
Customers paid one Franc for a twenty-five minute showing of ten
Lumière films. -
Herman Casler and W.K.L Dickson
The camera and projector they developed were new as they used 70mm film giving them very clear images. -
The Silent Film Era
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The Cabbage Ferry
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A trip to the moon
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The Great Train Robbery
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First animated cartoon
First animated cartoon. -
Credits begin to appear at the beginning of Motion Pictures
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Birth of a Nation
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The Sheik
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Nosferatu
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Narook of the North
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Warner Bros. is established
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First in-flight movie
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The Gold Rush
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Battleship Potenkin
Battleship Potenkin was a very influential film. -
The General
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The end of the Silent Era
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The Jazz Singer
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First Drive-in movie theartre
New Jersey, USA -
Walt Disney's first full length animated feature
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs