HISTORY OF FILM

  • Eadweard Muybridge puts together a slideshow of a horse running

  • Étienne-Jules Marey invents a camera that can record at 12 FPS

  • Thomas Edison unveils the Kinetoscope to the public

  • The first colored film, A Visit to the Seaside, is shown at a trade show

  • Film starts to move cross-country

    Around 1910, the film industry started to move from New York to California, since it wasn't ever bright enough in New York to get the best shots possible.
  • The Jazz Singer is released

    It is the 1st film with synchronized dialogue
  • Snow White is released

    It was the first animated feature film
  • Dumbo is released

  • Science Fiction films are at an all time high

    Sparked by Cold War paranoia, many science fiction films were released through the 1950s
  • Comedy films became more elaborate throughout the 1960s

  • Filmmaking becomes more worldwide

    With places like Bollywood sparking up now audiences all around the world. Special effects also increased during this decade.
  • E.T. is released

    It was the highest grossing film of the 1980s
  • CGI is used more in film, and is used to make entire films

  • More CGI movies are released through out the 2000s

  • The return of Star Wars