The History of Film Making

First Motion PIcture

Oct 23, 1878

Muybridge's The Horse in Motion, 1878. Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection.

First Motion Picture Projected

Oct 23, 1895

The Lumière Brothers celebrated the first light in the motion picture industry.

Animations were produced

Oct 29, 1899

The most important development in this area of special techniques occurred, arguably, in 1899, with the production of the short film Matches: An Appeal, a thirty-second long stop-motion animated piece intended to encourage the audience to send matches to British troops fighting the Boer War.

First Talking Movie (Thomas Edison)

Oct 23, 1913

Thomas Edison used the Kinetophone process to make the first talking movie.

First Colored movie in the U.S

Oct 23, 1918

Cupid Angling (1918) was the first colored feature length film and it was also a silent movie.

Television

Oct 23, 1926

In 1926, The televison was unvailed and it became very popular in the next few decades.

First pocket transmitter radio

Oct 29, 1954

TI pioneered the first commercial production of transistors made from silicon, and in that same year, introduced the first pocket-sized transistor radio.

First Video Tape (AMPEX)

Oct 23, 1956

Introduced the first commercially successful videotape.