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Eadweard Muybridge wins the bet!
Eadward a photographer bet $25,000 that a horse's feet were at some point all do not touch the ground, so cameras were set up to test this theory, When they viewed the pictures one after another, they discovered that it looked like the horse was moving. So began an amusing start of filming. -
Thomas Edison creates "moving images' a reality
Edison is famous for creating the infamous light bulb and also became famous because of his phonographic 'peephole kinetiscope' and selling them to connetiscope parlors near New York. In order to make more money and profit, Edison built the machine on purpose for only one person to see moving images of short seconds of something degenarate. -
lumiere brothers change perspectives
In France, Auguste and Louis created the first projected images on a screen for a larger audience. Costing 1 frank per entrance to see short films of 30-60 seconds, that could just be about a man falling of a horse or a kid trying to catch a fish. Creating along with the projector they named their method 'cinematographe'. -
Edwin Porter takes the lead
The first movie to be ever presented was the 'Great Train Robbery' directed by Edison's employee, Edwin Porter. A fourteen scene film including different shot views and crosscutting lasting up to 12 minutes. First film to introduce a narrative into a film and positions and distances of cameras and filming. -
Harry Davis Opens Up First Nickelodeon
In order to keep up with the demand, vaudevile, small theaters that showed short skits, started to play nicklelodeons. The reason they were so named was because it only cost one nickle to see the film. -
Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford form United Artists.
United Artists Corporation is an American film studio.Created with the intention of controlling actors own interests rather than depending upon the powerful commercial studios.They were influenced by the established Hollywood producers and distributors who were tightening their control over actor salaries and creative decisions, a process that evolved into the rigid studio system. -
Mickey Mouse is introduced in the cartoon Steamboat Willie.
First Walt Disney short film to have sound and be distributed introducing loving characters like Mickey mouse and Minnie mouse. Directed by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney pictures. -
The oscars have thier first academy awards
Presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Hosting a private dinner in Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in L.A. honoring best films of 1927 and 1928. Awards were created by Louis B. Mayer, founder of Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation (at present merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). It is the only Academy Awards ceremony not to be broadcast either on radio or television. -
Stepin Fetchit, Hollywood's First Black Film Star
Perry starred in Hearts in Dixie (1929), one of the first studio productions to boast an African-American cast.Better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American comedian and film actor. Perry parlayed the Fetchit persona into a successful film career, eventually becoming a millionaire, the first black actor in history to do so. He was the first black actor to receive featured screen credit in a film. -
Hollywood introduces Cinerama and 3-D.
Cinerama is a widescreen construction showing a wider and bigger image. 3-D is a type of process in which the image taken will have the illusion of depth when viewing the film. -
Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is released.
American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. -
Titanic becomes the highest grossing film in Hollywood history, earning $580 million domestically.
American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, co-produced, co-edited and partly financed by James Cameron. Nominated for fourteen Academy Awards, it won eleven, including the awards for Best Picture and Best Director, tying Ben Hur (1959) for most Oscars won by a single film. With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, it was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark.
