History of Film

Invention of Thaumatrope

1824

the invention of the Thaumatrope (the earliest version of an optical illusion toy that exploited the concept of "persistence of vision" first presented by Peter Mark Roget in a scholarly article) by an English doctor named Dr. John Ayrton Paris

Invention of Celluloid Film

1839

A British inventor, William H. Fox Talbot, an English classical archaeologist, made paper sensitive to light by bathing it in a solution of salt and silver nitrate. The silver turned dark when exposed to light and created a negative, which could be used to print positives on other sheets of light sensitive paper.

First Motion Picture

1878

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.

Film In Process

1888

Inventor George Eastman introduces the Kodak Camera. A year later he created the standard transparent film base.

Cinématographe

1895

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.

Trip To The Moon

1902

Georges Melies' 'A Trip to the Moon' is released, marking the first science fiction film and innovative use of special effects.

Give Credit

1911

Credits begin to appear at the beginning of motion pictures.

First 3D Film

1922

First commercially 3D film is released called 'The Power of Love'. It used anaglyph glasses with opposite coloured lenses creating the 3D effect.

Technicolour

1939

One of the first films to be filmed using Technicolour was the 'Wizard of Oz' in 1939 using a three-strip film process.

VHS

1976

The first VHS recorder was released to the public in Japan by
JVC.

Disney buys Pixar

2006

The Walt Disney Co. pays $7.4 billion for Pixar Animation Studios.

48fps

2012

Director Peter Jackson films 'The Hobbit' at 48 frames per second (fps)