significant events in the history of film

  • motion pictures

    one of the significant event in the history of film is the story of motion picture. Throughout the 1800s inventors developed various machines to create illusion of moving pictures. The movies were in black-and-white often with bad resolution. The addition of sound to film was tricky, then the image frames and sound track could be matched exactly. Although color films like sound films became the new standard today people use black-and-white to make artistic point.
  • first motion film ever made

    its called Roundhay Garden Scene. It's a short movie,its just 2.11 seconds long.
  • first camera invented

  • special effects

    The first special effect in 1895 was use by Thomas Edison
  • first screening

    in France, two brothers did the first private screening. The brothers invented the Cinématograph.
  • creative impact of sound

    A sound film is a motion picture with synchronised sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures were made commercially practical.
  • animation in films

    The first use of animation in movies was in 1899 with the production of the short film Matches:
  • feature film

    Films at the time were no longer than one reel, although some multi-reel films had been made on the life of Christ in the first few years of cinema. The first feature length multi-reel film in the world was the 1906 Australian production called The Story of the Kelly Gang
  • first cartoon

    first cartoon
    The first animated cartoon was on 4\ 6/1906 the first ever animated cartoon is is known as fantamagorie. its a film by Emily cohl in 1908
  • film techniques

    New film techniques that were introduced in this period include the use of artificial lighting, fire effects and Low-key lighting (i.e. lighting in which most of the frame is dark) for enhanced atmosphere during sinister scenes.
  • first comedy

  • first movie in color

    The first movie filmed in color was "Cupid Angling" made in 1918, the Wizard or Oz and Gone With The Wind were made in Technicolor in 1939, the whole process had been around for some time by then.
  • first action film

    The Great Train Robbery was considered to be the first action film during the 1920s and 1930s
  • first drive in a movie

    The first drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey, USA.
  • first color television

    The first color television broadcast had its beginnings in the late 1940s alongside black and white television. It was not a officially available until the early 1950s At that time, two competing color inventors were being awarded separately by CBS and RCA (which at the time was affiliated with NBC).