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Where it all began
Edward Muybridge's groundbreaking motion photography was accomplished using multiple cameras and assembling the individual pictures into a a single motion picture. -
Drive-In movie Dates ?
The first drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey, USA. -
The First Princess
Walt Disney’s first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is released. -
"We're not in Kansas anymore..."
American cinema brought such films as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with The Wind. -
Scoping Out the Goods
Hollywood films were still largely aimed at family audiences, and it was often the more old-fashioned films that produced the studios’ biggest successes. Productions like Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music -
On the come Up
The phenomenal success in the 1970s of Jaws and Star Wars in particular, led to the rise of the modern “blockbuster”. -
VCR
udiences began increasingly watching films on their home VCRs. In the early part of that decade, the film studios tried legal action to ban home ownership of VCRs as a violation of copyright, which proved unsuccessful. -
Sci-Fi Productions
the development of a commercially successful independent cinema in the United States. Cinema was increasingly dominated by special-effects films such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Jurassic Park, Titanic. -
Beginning of an Era
Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen form the film studio DreamWorks. -
Competition
The first feature length computer-animated feature, Toy Story, was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Disney. Dreamworks and 20thCentry competed to beat Disney films. -
IMAX
More films began being released simultaneously to IMAX cinema, the first was Disney animation Treasure Planet. -
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight was the first major feature film to have been at least partially shot in IMAX technology.