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The Creation of the First Movie Camera
Eadweard Muybridge holds a public demonstration of his Zoopraxiscope, a magic lantern provided with a rotating disc with artist's renderings of Muybridge's chronophotographic sequences. It was used as a demonstration device by Muybridge in his illustrated lecture (the original preserved in the Museum of Kingston upon Thames in England) -
The First Commercial Exhibition of Film
The first commercial exhibition of film took place on April 14, 1894 at Edison's Kinetoscope peep-show parlor. -
The First Animated Film
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. -
The Stroy of the Kelly Gang
1906 saw the production of an Australian film called The Story of the Kelly Gang. The film ran for more than an hour, and was the longest narrative film yet seen in Australia, and the world. Its approximate reel length was 4,000 feet (1,200 m) -
Vitaphone
In 1926, Hollywood studio Warner Bros. introduced the "Vitaphone" system, producing short films of live entertainment acts and public figures and adding recorded sound effects and orchestral scores to some of its major features. -
The Creation of Hollywood
Until this point, the cinemas of France and Italy had been the most globally popular and powerful. But the United States was already gaining quickly when World War I (1914–1918) caused a devastating interruption in the European film industries. The American industry, or "Hollywood", as it was becoming known after its new geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: film factory for the world, exporting its product to most countries on earth and co -
British Dramas Emerge from War
The desire for wartime propaganda created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas -
Martial Arts Films Take off
the 1970s saw a dramatic increase in the popularity of martial arts films, largely due to its reinvention by Bruce Lee, who departed from the artistic style of traditional Chinese martial arts films and added a much greater sense of realism to them with his Jeet Kune Do style. This began with The Big Boss (1971) -
Harry Potter Highest Grossing Film Franchise of All Time
In 2001, the Harry Potter film series began, and by its end in 2011, it had become the highest-grossing film franchise of all time. -
Avatar
James Cameron's 3-D film Avatar becomes the highest grossing Film of All Time.
