The History of Film

By ms186372

  • The Bet

    The Bet
    Eadweard Muybridge and his friends made a bet…
    A horse galloping could have all four feet off the ground at the same point in time. Muybridge developed a way to take photos with an exposure lasting a fraction of a second and, with reporters as witnesses, arranged 12 cameras along a track on Stanford’s estate. As a horse sped by, it tripped wires connected to the cameras, which took 12 photos in rapid succession.

  • Kinetoscope invented

    Kinetoscope invented
    Thomas Edison and William Dickson invented the forerunner of the motion picture film projector

  • The Lumiere Brothers

    The Lumiere Brothers
    The Lumiere Brothers - from France - did what Edison would not do. In 1895 created a projector that would show motion pictures on a screen to an audience. Cinematographe. They were really really really short

  • The First Movie

    The First Movie
    The first movie with a narrative was produced in 1903
    Edwin Porter created it. Porter was an employee of Thomas Edison’s. The movie was an epic at 12 minutes in length and 14 scenes total!

  • Vaudeville

    Vaudeville
    In order to get more popular, Vaudeville theaters would show short films in between sets
    Vaudeville theaters became Nickelodeons

  • California

    California
    In order to escape the MPPC’s grasp Independent Studios fled to California. This put a lot of distance between the studios and the MPPC. Also the proximity to Mexico. So if the MPPC did come after them they could make a quick get away.

  • Talkies

    Talkies
    talkies are movies with sound the first movie with sound was the 'Jazz Singer' which featured dialogue and singing.

  • Color in Films

    Color in Films
    Though some shorts films were experimenting with color as early as 1912 it wasn’t until the late 1930s that they were used in films
    The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind - both in 1939

  • Blockbuster Era

    Blockbuster Era
    the success of JAWS (1975) is when blockbuster film era began
    Big tentpole films began showing in the summer to box office success

  • CGI's

    CGI's
    In the 80s and 90s computer generated images (CGI) began to incorporated into films. Movies like Jurassic Park and Terminator 2 paved the way for the first full CGI movie which was Toy Story

  • Film To Digital

    Film To Digital
    Hollywood started to capture films digitally in the 2000s but it wasn't until 2013 that digitally shot films were more common than celluloid productions among the top 100 grossing films.

  • Highest Grossing Film Worldwide

    Highest Grossing Film Worldwide
    In 2019 Avengers: Endgame topped Avatar for the highest grossing movie in all the world