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Film History Timeline

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  • First Motion Built Camera

    First Motion Built Camera
    Thomas Eddison commissions William Kennedy Laurie Dickson to build the first motion picture camera. They later named it the Kinetograph. It changed the face of how films were produced later on

  • First Private Screening

    First Private Screening
    This private screening was held in France by Auguste and Louis Lumière. They had invented a combination of a camera and projector. The image of an oncoming train caused a stampede in the crowd, causing many to become injured

  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery
    The Great Train Robbery was made by an Edison Corporation mechanic, Edwin S. Porter to turn into the cameraman, director, and producer. It was made with 14 shots cutting between simultaneous events. It is also the first Western

  • Kinetophone

    Kinetophone
    Thomas Edison introduces his kinetophone, which makes talkies a reality. It was the first time a film had any noise

  • Rin Tin Tin

    Rin Tin Tin
    German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin becomes film's first canine star. He was rescued from a World War I battlefield by an American soldier, Lee Duncan. Duncan trained Rin Tin Tin and obtained silent film work for the dog

  • Walt Disney

    Walt Disney
    Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, hits theaters. It became an instant classic

  • The Hollywood 10

    The Hollywood 10
    The Hollywood Ten called as witnesses in the House Committee's Investigation of Un-American Activities. They are jailed for contempt of Congress when they refuse to disclose if they were or were not Communists

  • CinemaScope

    CinemaScope
    Hollywood thinks big and develops wide-screen processes such as CinemaScope, first seen in The Robe. They do this to counteract the threat of television

  • Rating System

    Rating System
    The motion picture rating system debuts with G, PG, R and X. Helps split it up into different categories for different audiences

  • Steadicam

    Steadicam
    The Steadicam is used for the first time in Rocky. Help revolutionize how films are produced

  • Special Effects

    Special Effects
    Special effects began to be used to make a wide range of movies more exciting, spectacular, and, usually, violent. E.T was one of the first movies to use special effects

  • NC-17

    NC-17
    The X rating is replaced by NC-17 (no children under 17). This helps make it more specific as to who can and can't watch the film