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Charlie Chaplin Born
Charlie Chaplin was born April 16th 1889. He grew up to be one of the first great movie stars in things from comdies to propaganda tye films. Chaplin died on Christmas in 1977. -
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Creation Of Film
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The Film Projector (Cinematographe)
The Lumiere brothers created what Thomas Edison was too selfish to make. Thomas Edsion was able to create this invention first but instead invented the Kinetoscope to increase profit. As a result Edison is discredited for the invention of the cinematographe. -
The First Kinetoscope
Essientally a private movie theater. Although the technology to create a movie theater to show a film to multiple people was avaliable, it was kept secret to increase profit. Thomas Edison first patented the kinetoscope on August 31st 1897 -
The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery was the first U.S. narrative. The movie was about 12 minutes long and was presented at 18 frames a second.
(the average films today are presented at anywhere from 24 to 48 frames) Its budget totaled up to 150$ and ended up a large sucess. -
First Nickleodeon Opens
Nickleodeons were small stages that showed films accompnied by pianos and sound effects. At this time films did not have audio and the piano and sound effects accompnied the mood of the movie and sound effects simulated action in the movie such as gunshots. They were titled 'nickle'odeons because they only required one nickle to watch -
3D
The Power of Love was one of the first movies to use the technology of 3D making the audience feel immeresed in the movie. How well this technology succeded at its time was unknown. -
The Vitaphone
The Vitaphone was vital for creating movies with sound. It was founded by Warner Bros. Enertainment in 1926. In 1960 better technology was created and made the vitaphone defunct. -
The Jazz Singer
The Jazz singer was the first movie with audio, not needing the acompanied piano and sound effects that were used in nickleodeons. The audio was recorded using a vitaphone and recorded onto disk which was then synced with the film. -
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
This movie was the first feature length, fully animated movie. its budget was only around 1.5 million dollars but raked in 416 million dollars from the box office. -
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz was on of the first well known films to use colour or named "technicolour". The movie famously filmed the charchter "Dorthy" at a farm in black and white but brought the magical land to life in colour. In its original release and its edited and unedited releases it brought in a total of $272,448,632. -
The Theif of Bagdad
The Theif of Bagdad was one of the first movies to use a green screen. In this film it was used to create the genie effect of a charachter. Now greenscreen is used in several ways. It can be used to make people invisible or create fake destruction in an environment. -
IMAX
Tiger Child, The First IMAX film was premeired at "Expo 70'" in Osaka Japan. Now there are several IMAX theaters throughout the US that premeire either new movies created for IMAX or recreating Older movies to fit IMAX theaters. -
Westworld
This "SciFi Western Thriller" was the first movie to use CGI or "Computer Generated Imagery" Since this technology has been invented and innovated, it has been used in SciFis to create effects like in Tron or to bring back Actors who have died such as the newest Fast and Furious with Paul Walker. -
Tron
One of the more well known movies to first use greenscreen. Its budget was 17million and brought in 33 million from the box office. Its sequel. Tron Legacy Brought back a charchter from the original movie played by Jeff Bridges in 2010, 24 years later.
