Movie history

By Millism

  • The Horse In Motion

    This groundbreaking motion photography was accomplished using multiple cameras and assembling the individual pictures into a a single motion picture. it’s something that you could do today, using a few cameras that are set to go off at an exact moment.

  • Roundhay Garden Scene

    Roundhay Garden Scene
    The world's earliest surviving motion-picture film, showing actual consecutive action is called Roundhay Garden Scene. It's a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. While it's just 2.11 seconds long, it is technically a movie.

  • Motion Picture Camera

    Motion Picture Camera
    William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison. Builds the first motion-picture camera and names it the Kinetograph.

  • Arrival of a Train

    Arrival of a Train
    This 50-second silent film shows the entry of a train pulled by a steam locomotive into a train station of the French coastal town of La Ciotat. It’s a single, unedited view illustrating an aspect of everyday life, and the film consists of one continuous real-time shot.

  • First Movie with Color

    First Movie with Color
    The most well-known movies to use color were "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind", both from 1939. However, pre-dating those classics by more than 20 years was a 1912 film called "With our King and Queen Through India", and a 1918 silent film called "Cupid Angling".

  • First movie with Technicolor

    First movie with Technicolor
    It took five years but Technicolor tried again in 1922 with “The Toll of the Sea”. The first general release film entirely shot under the Technicolor banner.

  • First Movie with Sound

    First Movie with Sound
    The earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927.

  • First Animatronic Ever Made

    First Animatronic Ever Made
    The first animatronic figure of a person is created by Disney and is Abraham Lincoln, featured at the Illinois State Pavilion of the 1964 New York World's Fair. 1968: The first animatronic character at a restaurant is created.

  • Westworld

    Westworld
    2D CGI was first used in movies in 1973's Westworld, though the first use of 3D imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld (1976). Which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

  • First VHS

    First VHS
    JVC released the first VHS machines in Japan in late 1976, and in the United States in mid 1977. Sony's Betamax competed with VHS throughout the late 1970s and into the 1980s

  • Titanic

    Titanic
    Titanic crashes into theaters. It is the most expensive film of all time, costing between $250 and $300 million to produce and market.

  • Jaws First Blockbuster

    Jaws First Blockbuster
    Steven Spielberg's Jaws is one of the most financially successful films ever made. ... Its influence on the film industry Jaws had a huge influence on the film industry. It wasn't just the first 'event' movie, it also welcomed in a new era of mass movie marketing and merchandising.