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First Motion Picture
Eadweard Muybridge sucessfully captured motion images of a horse galloping. This was done by placing 12 cameras with electromagnetic shutters along the a track and a thread was used to activated them.
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Film in process
Inventor George Eastman introduces the Kodak Camera. A year later he created the standard transparent film base.
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First Motion Picture Camera
Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson develop the Kinetoscope, a device in which film is moved past a light.
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Cinématographe
The Lumière brothers built a Cinématographe, a lightweight, hand-held motion picture camera. They discovered that their machine could also be used to project images onto a large screen.
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Trip to the Moon
Georges Melies' 'A Trip to the Moon' is released, marking the first science fiction film and innovative use of special effects.
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Audience Expectations
Audiences are scared out of their seats by the oncoming train in Lumiere brothers short film ' L'arrivee du train.' Found Here -
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First 3D Film
First commercially 3D film is released called 'The Power of Love'. It used anaglyph glasses with opposite coloured lenses creating the 3D effect.
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Spoken Words begin
Warner Bros.’s 'The Jazz Singer', presents the movie’s first spoken words.
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First Cartoon with synchronized sound
Disney's 'Steamboat Willie' was the first Mickey Mouse film released and the first cartoon with synchronized sound. Retrived from -
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Technicolour
One of the first films to be filmed using Technicolour was the 'Wizard of Oz' in 1939 using a three-strip film process.
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New Wave
Late 50's, early 60s: French New Wave films burst on the film scene experiementing with new techniques and style. Found here -
New Hollywood Filmmakers
Mid 1970s a group of American film makers emerge on the scene with a cutting-edge style. These include Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Brian DePalma and George Lucas.
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Highest grossing film of all time
James Cameron’s 3D film Avatar became the highest-grossing film of all time.
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