The Evolution of the Equipment Used Through out Film along with the Business Aspect of the Time

By verrmax

  • Moving Images were Produced on Revolving Drums and Disks

    Moving images were produced on revolving drums and disks which were invented by Simon von Stampfer who invented the Stroboscope, Joseph Platea who invented the Phenakistoscope, and William Horner who invented the zoetrope.

  • First Successful Motion Picture was Shot

    British photographer Eadweard Muybridge shoots the very first successful motion pictures of how people and animals move. But he had no way to project it out so he had to use the Zeotrope.

  • Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson Develop the Kinetoscope

    Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson invent the Kinetoscope. This invention projects a small image film through a small slit. The image is then cycled through to make it look like it is moving.

  • Edison Shows the Improved Vitascope Projector

    Thomas Edison shows his improved Vitascope projector at the World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago and it became the first successful projector in the United States.

  • The Mercury Lamp was Beginning to be used for Filming

    Cooper Hewitt's Mercury Lamp made it possible to film inside without natural sunlight by imitating the suns light.

  • The First Animated Cartoon is Produced

    The first animated cartoon was produced which was called Humorous Phases of Funny Faces.

  • Carl Laemmle Organizes Universal Pictures

    Carl Laemmle organizes Universal Pictures which a has become a major film company that is still very successful to this day.

  • The Bell & Howell 2709 movie camera was invented

    The Bell & Howell 2709 movie camera which allowed the directors to get close-ups without actually moving the camera and risking breaking the equipment.

  • Warner Bothers are Established

    The Warner Brothers are Established and continue to produce films to this day.

  • Western electric and and Warner Bros make a deal

    Western Electric and Warner Bros team up to start making movies that contain the sound of the movie but only background music. The actually movies were still silent.

  • Paramount Studious Introduces Talkies

    Paramount becomes the first studio to introduce the concept of talkies were the actors actually talk in the film.

  • Motion Picture Studios go over what is Acceptable in Movies

    motion pictures industry takes over the production code which puts guidelines down on what movies are allowed to produce.

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is Released

    Walt Disney's first full-length animated movie, Snow White, and the Seven Dwarfs, was produced and featured in Orlando.

  • The American Cinema Produced High Quality Films

    American Cinema produces film like The Wizard
    of Oz and Gone with the Wind along with other many other classics we view today

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Caused other great Disney films to be produced

    The very successful movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs caused Disney to expotentially grow and continue to produce highly successful animated movies like Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Bambi.

  • The Cinematic Industry was Threatened by Television

    The cinematic industry was threatened by television and the number of people that liked both started to grow exponentially that many of the movie theaters started to go bankrupt.

  • Hollywood Films were still Aimed at Family Audiences

    The Hollywood are still largely focused around the family movie and also keeping all the movies old-fashioned and didn't try to progress what there movies meant.

  • The Growth in Independent Producers and Production Companies

    The growth in independent producers and production companies along with the increase of individual actors was the was the main reason the new Hollywood era fell.

  • Sexual Content Continues to get even more strict

    Filmmakers continue to get even more strict about their sexual content that they can produce to the public including gunfights and graphic scene of intense bloody deaths.

  • Film director’s begin to express their personal vision and creative insights

    The start of the auteur style of the film making scene helped the directors control there projects way easier then before. This was the reason for many of the great movies we know today.

  • The Rise of the Modern Blockbuster

    The extremely successful movie in the 1970's like star wars and jaws led to the rise of the modern blockbuster. Hollywood focused more on making a smaller amount of high budgeted movies with extremely large marketing campaigns.

  • Audiences began to increasingly watch movies on there home VCR

    Film studios tried to legally ban the home movie VCR from showing their movies by threatening them with copyright strikes Which didn't work out in the end but actually became a whole second market for the film industry.

  • Dream works Studios was formed

    David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg came together to from the highly successful production company Dream Works Studios.

  • Big American Studios Began to Make Their Own Independent Production Companies

    Big American studios began to make their own independent production companies to finance their own non-mainstream items.

  • The First Full-Length Independent Computer Made Film was Shown

    The first full-length independent computer animated movie was the Toy Story which was produced by Pixar Animation Studios then was released to the public by Disney. After such a successful movie computer animation began to expand and slowly become the major technique for future animated films.

  • Cinematic Evolution Begins

    From physical film role to digital film technology the film era was changing from VHS to CDs and that started to replace the VHS stores.

  • Documentaries started to grow

    Documentary started to grow as a commercial genre and with the succses of multiple documentaries the genre started to take off.

  • Saw the beginning of a growing problem of digital distribution

    this was the beginning of when the film companies started to reliese the flaws in the digital distribution of their movies that would have expiration dates on copy rights, content security, and the right to enforce their copyrights.

  • 3D films gain massive popularitie

    3D films gain increasing popularity because of the amount of 3D film being released at this time due to the new technology that was previously introduced.