History of Film

Invention of Film

Sep 25, 1839

William H. Fox Talbot invented paper sensetive to lightby putting it in a salt and silver nitrate solution

First Phasmotrope Demonstration

Sep 25, 1870

Henry Renno Heyl demonstrates the Phasmotrope for the first time, in Philidelphia

George Eastman

Sep 25, 1885

George Eastman introduces film made on paper, rather than glass

Kodak

Sep 25, 1888

George Eastman introduces the inexpensive Kodak camera

Kinetoscope

Sep 25, 1889

Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson invent the Kinetoscope

Cinematographe

Sep 25, 1895

The Lumiere brothers started showing short films in a Paris Café

First Private Screening

Sep 25, 1895

The Lumiere brothers host the first private screening.

The Great Train Robbery

Sep 25, 1903

Edwin Porter creates the first U.S. narrative film called The Great Train Robbery

Movie Theater

Sep 25, 1905

The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh

Nickelodeon

Sep 25, 1910

Nickelodeon theaters were attracting 26 Million viewers each week

First Feature Film

Sep 25, 1911

The first feature lenght film is released.

Charlie Chaplin

Sep 25, 1917

By 1917 Charlie Chaplin was making more than a Million a year, and he was the first 20th century superstar