motion pictures

By jwhitman

  • 1920s;

    John L. Baird patented the idea of using arrays of transmit images of TV (television).

  • 1903

    the Courts rule that a film doesn’t have to be copyrighted frame-by-frame, but rather that it could be covered by one copyright submission

  • 1906

    Chicago becomes a center for the motion picture exchanges that supply films for new Nickelodeons. Edison projectors sold for $135 each.

  • 1928

    Walt Disney created the first cartoon with synchronized sound.

  • 1993

    Jurassic Park used computer graphics to look like real-life.

  • 2002

    Lucas’ second Star Wars prequel: Attack of the Clones was the Hollywood motion picture to be filmed entirely with digital video.

  • 1887

    Hanibal W. Goodwin invents film. George Eastman buys the invention and begins mass producing it.

  • 1889

    Thomas Edison introduces the Kinetograph, the first true motion picture camera.

  • 1895

    Auguste and Louis Lumiere give the first public showing of the Cinematographe, a device that projects motion pictures on a screen.

  • 1903

    Edwin S. Porter produces The Great Train Robbery, the first narrative film.

  • 1905

    First nickelodeon opens in Pittsburgh, PA.

  • 1950

    Television overtakes movies in popularity; color replaces black and white movies in theaters; theaters then attempt to win audiences back with 3-D pictures and replacing black and white movies with color.

  • 1927

    Warner Brothers produce full-length singing and talking film called The Jazz Singer with popular singer and stage actor during this time named Al Jolson. The audience loved it!