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First Partial Successful Built Camera
This was the first camera that was somewhat successfully built. It was made by Nicephore Niepce. He used his own camera he had made, and a piece of paper coated with silver chloride, which darkened where it was exposed to light -
The Bet
A bet was made by Leland Stanford to show that Horses "fly" or saying that all 4 of the horse feet are in the air the they gallop. Eadweard was the photographer that took 12 pictures of the horse moving. This then lead to the idea of movies. -
First Camera used for film
This camera was made by George Eastman. He called this camera "Kodak." This Kodak camera went to sale in 1888. -
First Film Projector
The Lumber Brothers were the first ones to invent film projector. They called these "Cinematographs." These cinematographs were very short movies showing French life. -
The First Movie
The very first narrative movie was called "The Great Train Robbery." This was created by Edwin Porter. This movie lasted for 12 minutes. -
Early Hollywood
Thomas Edison and his company (MPPC) would be the only ones with film equipment, so they would overprice these equipment so they can make a lot of money. If you didn't use their equipment, Edison would send his men to destroy your equipment so you can buy his. Because of this, independent studios started moving to California to get away from Edison. -
Talkies
From the times 1926-1930, the movie industry went from silent fils to talkies. Talkies are movies with actual sound and dialogue within the actors. At first people didn't accept talkies but over the years, they outgrew that dislike and started liking talkies and got used to it -
Color in film
Color in film finally hit the industry a little bit after talkies. Before the 1930s, movies only came in black and white so adding color was a huge thing. In 1932, Technicolor was introduced and lasted till mid 1950s -
CGI
CGI's were introduced in the 1950s. Computers were purposed to create patterns onto animation cels which then put in film. The first film that used CGI was Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO. -
First BlockBuster Movie
The movie Jaws is considered to be the first blockbuster movie. The movie helped transition into the blockbuster era. This movie was the first to earn $100 million at the box office -
Film to Digital
During the 2000s, the film industry had a huge change. They went from film to digital. This change had the film slowly die and had the digital rise above film and become a common thing -
Pixar Buys Disney
in 2006, Disney is bought by Pixar. This purchase was worth 7.6 billion dollars
