Motion Picture Timeline Mason Shoalmire

Fact 1 :1824 Peter Roget presents a paper that explains how to animate still pictures and the theory behind it. ses/Ani/AnimationHistory.html

Fact 2: 1826  A French inventor discovers a way to make images permanent using light sensitive chemicals. The beginning of still pictures.  line/film_chron.cfm line/film_chron.cfm

Fact 3: 1839  William H. Fox makes light sensitive paper, by bathing paper in light sensitive chemicals. The first film.  line/film_chron.cfm line/film_chron.cfm

Fact 4:1840  First American paten for the camera by Alexander Wolcott  ntions/a/Photography.htm ntions/a/Photography.htm

Fact 5:1872  Eadweard Muybridge begins filming animals in motion.  s/Ani/AnimationHistory.html s/Ani/AnimationHistory.html

Fact 6: 1882  Etienne Marey develops a camera that can take 12 pictures a second. This was one of the first motion cameras and its shape is still used today.  line/film_chron.cfm line/film_chron.cfm

Fact 7:1893  Tomas Edison displays his kinetic scope at the Chicago world fair and received patens. He later filed suit against people saying their ideas were using components of his.  /film_chron.cfm /film_chron.cfm

Fact 8: 1896  Tomas Edison’s company begins projecting motion pictures. Mostly it was public, and mainly for advertising.  line/film_chron.cfm line/film_chron.cfm

Fact 9: 1905  The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh.  One step for easy movies. One giant leap for the movie industry.  tml tml

Fact 10: 1913  First mass marketed camera the Brownie  ns/a/Photography.htm ns/a/Photography.htm

Fact 11: 1915  The first anaglyphic film is produced. 

Fact 12: 1917  Technicolor is introduced, adding color to films and making them better.  10.html 10.html

Fact 13: 1919  The first American cartoon appears. Felix the cat. y.com/UPenn/courses/Ani/A nimationHist

Fact 14: 1927  General electric invents the flash bulb.  ntions/a/Photography.htm ntions/a/Photography.htm

Fact 15: 1956  First video recorder: The Ampex corporation used magnetic tape tech pioneered by German scientist during WWII to create the first video tape recorder the Ampex VRX-1000  video-production-equpment.html video-production-equpment.html

Fact 16: 1967  The Electronics Engineering Company (EECO) developed the first time code for electronic editing.  edit-suite-once-upon-a-time-the-history-of- videotape-editing edit-suite-once-upon-a-time-the-history-of- videotape-editing

Fact 17: 1974  First digital camera developed. It changed photography forever.  mera_timeline/32/ mera_timeline/32/

Fact 18: 1985  Pixar introduces the first digital image processor.  ntions/a/Photography.htm ntions/a/Photography.htm

Fact 19: 1990  Camera phones begin hitting the market.  a_timeline/32/ a_timeline/32/

Fact 20: 2005  The cannon EOS 5D comes out the first consumer priced full frame digital SLR with 24x36mm CMOS censors.  timeline/ timeline/