History

The History of Film

By I'saac
  • The Bet

    The Bet
    A bet between Edward Muybridge and Leland Stanford that at some point all of the horses in a horse race have all there hooves off the ground
  • The Invention

    The Invention
    Thomas Edison invented te phonograph in 1877.
  • motion picture camera

    motion picture camera
    The Motion picture camera was invented by Dickson
  • To the Public (Demonstration)

    Lumber brothers, Auguste, and Louis created cinematography and gave its commercial demonstration
  • The great train robbery

    The great train robbery
    The first spectacular box-office success
  • Color

    Color
    One of the first successful subtractive processes was two-color made by Herbert Kalmus's Technicolor Corporation
  • Talkies

    Talkies
    Started in 1927 by the Warner Brothers when AlJolson starred in "The Jazz Singer". The talkies were an immediate success and made silent movies looked down upon.
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    Film dipped here because unemployment rates were really high
  • Full Length films

    Full Length films
    full length films were being produced during this decade. Frank Capra's 'It's a wonderful Life' and Orson Welles's 'Citizen Kane were released
  • Decline of Hollywood

    Decline of Hollywood
    WWII had just ended and inflation was high
  • Threat

    Threat
    Television was a great threat in the 1950s
  • Period: to

    Turning point in movies

    In 1967 the movie Bonnie and Clyde was released and changed how movies were made in the United States