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Paul Gottlieb Nipkow - Mechanical Television History
German, Paul Nipkow developed a rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire in 1884 called the Nipkow disk. Paul Nipkow was the first person to discover television's scanning principle, in which the light intensities of small portions of an image are successively analyzed and transmitted. -
Motion picture project
Thomas Edision and his assistant started on the motion project to creat movie equptment. -
Film studio is built
Thomas E. Bulds a film studio. -
Magician-Georges Méliès
A Magician from france, (Named George Melies) is the first movie's, story teller. He makes short dramas, which he links individual scenes into easy narrtives. -
Show place
On June 26, William, Wainwright built a place in New Orleans into Vitascope Hall. It was the first place dedicated to showing motion pictures. Admission was 10¢, and because people liked it so much, they kept the theater, -
War movies
Because of the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, there were lots of war movies. -
Tri-Pods
Tripods are made for easy panning for videos. Not the real Tri Pod picture. -
Court Rule
Courts rule that a movie can be copy righted as a whole, not clip by clip. -
Color TV
A German patent in 1904 proposed, for color tv (Prefected in the 1920's) -
Nickle theaters
It is encouraged to send kids to "Nickle Theaters" after school. -
Film studio
Film studio is created in California. -
Sound
Sound for television and motion picture is added. -
Telly system
Charles Jenkins invented a mechanical television system called radiovision and claimed to have transmitted the earliest moving silhouette images on June 14, 1923. -
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin - Electronic
Russian inventor, Vladimir Zworykin invented an improved cathode-ray tube called the kinescope in 1929. The kinescope tube was sorely needed for television. Zworykin was one of the first to demonstrate a television system with all the features of modern picture tubes. -
The Depresson
Because of the depression, they (Movie theaters) started to give out, door prises and make movie tickets cheaper. -
“Gone With the Wind”.
Movie is reviewed, and released. Cost over 4$million ro make. A reviewer wasnt as harsh in his review as he usually was. -
Entertainer's
The first children's entertainer to perform for television was Burr Tillstrom, who broadcast live from the New York World's Fair in 1939.... Puppets. -
To save Money
To save money, producers would buy the rights to books and make them into movies. -
TV Children shows
The American Broadcasting Company first aired Saturday morning Television shows for children on August 19, 1950. The network introduced two shows: Animal Clinic. Acrobat Ranch had a circus theme. -
Color TV
! The cabinets only had 12-inch screens, so tiny and blurry that you had to look at the larger black and white screens to recognize detail. But it was color and it was gorgeous! - rich Technicolor reds, greens, and blues.(A.K.A..... Color Tv is aired onto the TV) -
The 1970's Hollywoods,
Hollywoods most successful films are: Love story and Summer. Love Story and "Summer" remain, as of 2005, two of the most successful films in Hollywood history. "Summer", costing $1,000,000 USD, brought in $25,000,000 at the box office, while "Love Story", with a budget of $2,200,000, earned $106,400,000). -
Jaws
it was becoming increasingly more difficult to predict what would sell or become a hit. Hollywood's economic crises in the 1950s and 1960s, especially during the war against the lure of television, were somewhat eased with the emergence in the 70s of summer "blockbuster" movies or "event films" marketed to mass audiences, especially following the awesome success of two influential films:
So... Jaws. -
Miloš Forman,
He directed the movie called "Taking off" which because a big hit of the time. The 1971 film satirized the American middle class,young girl. (AKA, it followed a middle class/average girl) -
HBO
HBO (Home Box Office) was launched on subscription cable T.V. -
Batman!
Tim Burton's ambitious, hyped and over-marketed production of a dark-shaded Batman (1989) - a Warners' mega-hit film promoted with lucrative merchandising that became the blockbuster hit of the last year of the decade, with an over-the-top performance by Jack Nicholson as the villainous Joker ("Where does he get those wonderful toys?") and comedian Michael Keaton in a serious, dual role as the comic book hero - the dark avenger of Gotham City -
Costs
In the 1990s for the most part, cinema attendance was up - mostly at multi-screen cineplex complexes throughout the country. Although the average film budget was almost $53 million by 1998, many films cost over $100 million to produce, and some of the most expensive blockbusters were even more. -
2000's
2000's were really the time for movies, editing was perfected, and everything became better quality.
