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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
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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.
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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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Inventor George Eastman introduces the Kodak Camera. A year later he created the standard transparent film base.
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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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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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Credits begin to appear at the beginning of motion pictures.
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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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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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The first VHS recorder was released to the public in Japan by
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The Walt Disney Co. pays $7.4 billion for Pixar Animation Studios.
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Director Peter Jackson films 'The Hobbit' at 48 frames per second (fps)
