history of video cinama

photographs in motion

Sep 26, 1878

British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move.

kinetoscope parler

Jan 26, 1895

made for a single person to look at moving images in a smasll machine with one eye

cinamatography

Jan 26, 1895

short films 30 - 60 seconds of small visual moments

Nickelodeons

Jan 1, 1900

vaudiville expanded into nickelodeons, you pay 1 nickle to see a movie, dancing, and hear music

buying films

Sep 26, 1902

Henry Miles sets up the first film exchange, allowing exhibitors to rent films instead of buying them.

first narrative film

Sep 26, 1903

first narrarive film was created, "the great train robbery, 12 minutes long

Nickalodeon

Sep 26, 1910

nickalodeon theaters were attracting over 26,000,000 viewers a each week

photoplay

Sep 28, 1912

Photoplay debuts as the first magazine for movie fans.

Winser McCay & Gertie

Sep 28, 1914

Winsor McCay unleashes Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated cartoon

Disneys first

Sep 28, 1924

Walt Disney creates his first cartoon, "Alice's Wonderland."

Snow white and the seven dwarfs

Sep 28, 1937

Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, hits theaters and becomes an instant classic

west side story

Sep 28, 1961

West Side Story is adapted for the big screen, and will go on to win Oscars for Best Picture, Supporting Actor (George Chakiris), Supporting Actress (Rita Moreno), and Directing (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins).