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Pinhole Camera
One of the first technological precursors of film around the 1820s. -
Camera Obscura
After the pinhole camera the more advanced camera obscura. -
Moving Images
Moving images were produced on revolving drums and disks in the 1830s with independent invention by Simon Von Stampfer (Stroboscope) . -
Fast Motion Using a Stereoscopic Camera
The sponsorship of Leland Stanford, Eadweard Maybridge successfully photographed a horse in fast motion using a senes of 24 stereoscopic cameras. -
First Movie Camera
The invention of the first movie camera. -
Movie Theatre
The movie theatre was considered a cheaper, simpler way to provide entertainment to the masses. -
Chronophotographic Gun
Étienne-Jules Marey invented a chronophotographic gun in 1882, which was capable of taking 12 consecutive frames a second, recording all the frames on the same picture. -
First Real Film
The first real film made by Louis Le Prince in Roundhay, Leeds, England is known as the earlist surviving motion picture. -
Kinetograph
Thomas Alva Edison's fully developed camera, called the Kinetograph, was patented in 1891 and took a series of instantaneous photographs. -
Pleograph
Kazimierz Prószyński had built his camera and projecting device, called Pleograph, in 1894. -
Berlin Wintergarten Theatre
The Berlin Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first cinema ever. -
Narrative Film Construction
The way forward to making films made up of more than one shot was led by films of the life of Jesus Christ. The first of these was made in France in 1897, and it was followed in the same year by a film of the Passion play staged yearly in the Czech town of Horitz. -
Film Continuity
Real film continuity, involving action moving from one sequence into another, is attributed to Robert W. Paul's Come Along, Do!, made in 1898. In the first sequence, an old couple are outside an art exhibition and follow other people inside through the door. The second sequence shows what they do inside. -
Animation
The most important development in this area of special techniques occurred, arguably, in 1899, with the production of the short film -
Silent Films
Most films were silent in this time. -
Aeroscope
Aeroscope was a type of compressed air camera for making films, constructed by Kazimierz Prószyński in 1909. -
The Sound Era
Experimentation with sound film technology, both for recording and playback, was virtually constant throughout the silent era. -
The War and Post-war Years
The desire for wartime propaganda created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas. -
The 'New Hollywood' or Post-classical Cinema
The New Hollywood was the period following the decline of the studio system during the 1950s and 1960s and the end of the production code. -
Sequels, Blockbusters and Videotape
During the 1980s, audiences began increasingly watching films on their home VCRs. -
New Special Effects, Independent Films, and DVDs
The early 1990s saw the development of a commercially successful independent cinema in the United States
