history of film

  • moving images

    moving images
    Moving images were made on spinning drums and disks with there own invention by Simon von Stampfer in Austria, Joseph Plateau in Belgium and William Horner (zoetrope) in Britain.
  • negatives to positives

    negatives to positives
    British inventor, William H. Fox Talbot made paper sensitive to light by soaking it in a solution of salt and silver nitrate. The silver turned kind of dark when exposed to light and as a result of that it created a negative, which could be used to print positives on other sheets of light sensitive paper, which is pretty cool.
  • animals

    animals
    British photographer Eadweard Muybridge is the first at taking good photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move.
  • french brothers

    french brothers
    1895 Two French brothers, Louis and August Lumiere patent a combination movie camera and projector, it was able to project a image that can be seen by many people. In Paris, they had to present the first commercial exhibition of projected motion pictures. Lumiere and his brother were the very first to present projected, moving, photographic, pictures to a paying audience of more that one person.
  • improvement

    improvement
    Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S..and it also helped the projector diffuse around the world
  • Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

    Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
    1906 The first animated cartoon is produced.Humorous Phases of Funny Faces it was were a person would be on a chalk board drawing people and stuff and it was also a silent cartoon.
  • credit

    credit
    1910 actors in American films began to receive screen credit, and the way to the creation of film stars was opened.Becuse before this actors got absluly no credit for there hard work.
  • warner bros

    warner bros
    Warner Bros. is established.they actually opened the studio in 1918 but didint start creating until 23 because of a loan.
  • Wings

    Wings
    The first Academy Awards are announced, with the award for the best picture in 1927 going to ‘Wings’.which is about a american fighter plane pilot.
  • drive in

    drive in
    The first drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey, USA. wich was made in a motor park.
  • snow white

    snow white
    Walt Disney’s first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is released.which was a big hit then and still is now.
  • diffusion

    diffusion
    1992 Americans spend $12 billion to buy or rent video tapes, compared to just $4.9 billion on box office ticket sales. 76% of households have VCR players.whichmeans movies are startingto get big.
  • copyright

    copyright
    the beginning of a big problem of digital distribution to be controlled with regards to expiration of copyrights, content security, and enforcing copyright. this made for Moore’s law allows for increasingly cheaper technology (everyone started staling stuff)
  • Imax

    Imax
    More films began being released simultaneously to IMAX cinema, the first was Disney animation Treasure Planet.which shows that the movies are getting higher quality and in a higher demand.
  • polar express

    polar express
    the polar express was the first movie to use the 3-D performance capture technique throughout the entire movie
  • youtube

    youtube
    youtube was invented by Jawed Karmin, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. it is currently the most famous website in the world
  • blue ray

    blue ray
    Blue Ray was invented in 2006 and is a storage medium for optical discs that is used primarily for high definition video.they use a blue laser to read or write data to a disc.
  • pirates of the carabian

    pirates of the carabian
    this movie was the most expesive film ever made.it is also one of the most loved series ever too.
  • Frozen

    Frozen
    release of Frozen overtakes toy story 3 in becoming the worlds highest grossing animated film earning over 1.2 billion dollars in the box-office and obtaining 5th place on the list of highest grossing films of all time.
  • thor

    thor
    Thor ragnorok comes out and is one of the biggest marvel movies ever