History of Film

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  • Kinetoscope

    Kinetoscope
    In 1891 Thomas Edison and his company made the kinetoscope. The kinetoscope was a projector that passed a strip of film through a lens and electric lightbulb to create a movie to be filmed through a peephole at the top.

  • Projector

    Projector
    In 1895 the Lumiere Brothers made the projector. The projector was able to play very short films that were 30 seconds to 1 minute long.

  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery
    The first western ever. It was made by Edwin S. Porter. It had 14 shots cutting in between events and it was 12 minutes

  • Nickelodeon

    Nickelodeon
    The first movie theater opens in Pittsburg

  • Rin Tin Tin

    Rin Tin Tin
    Rin Tin Tin was the first movie star that wasn't human. Rin Tin Tin also saved Warner Brothers from going bankrupt.

  • Ratings

    Ratings
    The rating system of G, PG, R, and X comes out

  • Jaws

    Jaws
    James is important to him history because it is the first franchise. Jaws was a novel that later became three films by Steven Spielberg

  • Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park
    Jurassic Park was important because of their use of animatronics in order to make the all of the dinosaurs in the film.

  • Titanic

    Titanic
    Titanic is the third most expensive film ever made. It cost around $295 Million dollars. It also received 13 oscars.

  • The Matrix

    The Matrix
    The Matrix popularized 'bullet time" from the scene where he doges a bullet. In "bullet time" multiple cameras are set around a subject to get multiple frames to make a really really really detailed slow motion scene.

  • Highest grossing animated film

    Highest grossing animated film
    Finding Nemo replaces The Lion King as the highest grossing film of all time. Shrek then became the highest grossing animated film in 2004.

  • Avatar

    Avatar
    Avatar is important because of its use of CGI. The majority of the film uses CGI to create entire worlds and race of people.