Movie Events

  • The introduction of the camera methods

    The introduction of the camera methods
    The first early camera or camera methods were being developed around 1816. Multiple inventors were creating motion and picture cameras.
  • Development of Paper Film

    Development of Paper Film
    Creation of paper Film was being made around 1885.
  • Kodak was Created

    Kodak was Created
    In the month of September around 1888 the first Kodak camera was created. photography could be used in the hands of anyone who could press a button.
  • Celluloid Filming

    Celluloid Filming
    Celluloid was being developed in 1889. Celluloid itself is a highly flammable substance used to create motion and x-ray films.
  • Public Displays of Film

    Public Displays of Film
    The first theater was created in Philadelphia around 1899.
  • Edison’s mark on filming

    The earliest example of camera test was mad by Thomas Edison in 1891. Other tests plus a wide variety of actualities and dramas were conducted through the year 1918 before Edison's company ceased film production.
  • The First private screening

    In France 1895, Lumiere Brothers held the first private screening. The brothers invent the Cinematograph a combination camera and projector which all them to create this mini screenings. The first was a train being film heading toward the audience.
  • The Great Train Robbery

    The first movie was The Great Train Robbery which was produced in 1903. It had no dialogue and was a grand total of 12 mins long
  • Talkies

    Talkies
    Talkies are a form of film that has a soundtrack for voices and music. Talkies were also created to replace silent films which was thought to be a bad idea at first. However silent films ended up being slowly replaced by talkies around 1930.
  • Color Films

    Color Films
    The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind both became the first of color Films to be released in 1939.
  • Blockbusters

    Blockbusters
    Blockbusters were introduced by the movie Jaws which was released around 1975. blockbusters are meant to be summer movies that audiences line up to see the first weekend it's released. Movies like Alien, Star Wars, and Back To The Future also followed this formula
  • Film To Digital

    In Early 2000 Digital started to slowly becoming the better alternative over filming. With Features that came with Digital You can edit your images directly on the camera or on a computer with photo-editing software.