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Camera Obscura
a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside. It is important historically in the development of photography. -
First Camera
First camera invented in 1814 -
The Horse In Motion
DescriptionThe Horse in Motion is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a sequential series of six to twelve "automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse. Muybridge shot the photographs in June 1878. -
Kodak
Kodak's role throughout the history of photography was one of the most influential. At the same time, it was a roller coaster of financial and technological mistakes. While Kodak was not the company, which created the camera or film, it was responsible for developing the film still used by consumers today. -
Celluloid
Celluloid is a type of plastic that's transparent and flammable. Until recently, most movies were filmed on celluloid. Celluloid is a name for film used in shooting movies. Because of its use in making films, this term came to stand for movies in general. -
Thomas Edison / Kinetograph / MPPC
Thomas Edison receives a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph. ... Unlike these earlier cameras, Edison's Kinetoscope and Kinetograph used celluloid film, invented by George Eastman in 1889. In February 1893, Edison built a small movie studio that could be rotated to capture the best available sunlight. -
The Lumiere Brothers
Created first Projector with moving pictures -
The Great Train Robbery
First movie with a narrative -
Hollywood
Place where movies thrived instead of New York -
Nickelodeon’s
The nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures in the United States. Usually set up in converted storefronts, these small, simple theaters charged five cents for admission and flourished from about 1905 to 1915. -
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin starred in, wrote, and directed some of most memorable films in motion-picture history, including The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award as best actor, Monsieur Verdoux (1947 -
The Jazz Singer
It is the first feature-length motion picture with not only a synchronized recorded music score but also lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences. Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and ended the silent film era. It was produced by Warner Bros. -
Talkies
Movie star with sound that developed in the late 1920s -
The Wizard of Oz
All the Oz sequences were filmed in three-strip Technicolor. The opening and closing credits, as well as the Kansas sequences, were filmed in black and white and colored in a sepia-tone process. Sepia-toned film was also used in the scene where Aunt Em appears in the Wicked Witch's crystal ball. -
JAWS
Jaws is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential American films ever made. It was the first summer blockbuster as we've come to know them, creating, more or less on its own, the business model of modern movies: wide distribution combined with television ads during the summer. -
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars fundamentally changed the aesthetics and narratives of Hollywood films, switching the focus of Hollywood-made films from deep, meaningful stories based on dramatic conflict, themes and irony to sprawling special-effects-laden blockbusters, as well as changing the Hollywood film industry in fundamental ways. -
Jurrasic Park
Jurassic Park was so successful because the film combined spectacular visual imagery with an unfamiliar, exciting perspective of dinosaurs. We probably won't see a combination of such conditions again. There may never be another dinosaur movie as important as Jurassic Park -
AVATAR
Avatar was reportedly 60% CGI imagery, with a majority of the CG character animation filmed with revolutionary new motion-capture techniques using live actors. The other 40% of film was live-action imagery, relying on more traditional (but no less spectacular) Cameron-brand visual F/X.
