 It all started in1832 when Joseph Plateau invented the “Fantascope,” also called the “Phenakistiscope,” or “Spindle Viewer,” that simulated motion.  He was also a Belgian inventor.  production-historyr.

 John Wesley Hyatt developed “celluloid,” it was patented in 1870 and trademarked in  Then later used as the base for photographic film.  It was patented in 1870 and trademarked in 1873 then later used as the base for photographic film.

 Edward Muybridge successfully captured a picture galloping horse.  It proved that all four of the horses feet were off the ground at the same time.  He did that by setting up a series of cameras along the horses projected path.  He published his work in  He called it “Horse in Motion.”

 French innovator and physiologist Etienne jules Marey  He developed the “Photographic Gun.”  It could take multiple photographs per second.  The term shooting a film was most likely derived from Marey’s invention.

 William Dickson  He filmed Monkeyshines No.1.  It was the first motion picture ever produced on photographic film in the United States.

 Thomas Edison and William Dickson constructed a device for recording movement on film, and another device for viewing film.  The “Kinetograph” used film which was 35mm wide and had sprocket holes to advance the film.  The sprocket system would momentarily pause the film role before the camera’s shutter to create a photographic frame.  The formal introduction of the kinetograph in October of 1892 set the standard for theoretical motion picture camera’s still used today.

 The world’s first film production studio “The Black Maria” was built on the grounds od Edison’s laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey.  Construction was completed by February 1,  It made film stripes for the Kinetoscope.  It cost $

 William K.L Dickson titled Carmencita featured the first female in a U.S. motion picture.  Spanish dancer Carmencita revealed her legs and undergarments as she twirled and danced.  That was leading to one of the earliest instances of censorship in the industry.

 The word Cinema was born on December 28,  The name came from Paris, France.  They presented the first commercial and public exhibition of a projected motion picture using their combo camera and projector device.  It was called the Cinematograph.  It combined a camera, printer, and projecting capabilities all in the same housing.  They used a film width of 35mm, and a speed of 16 frames per second.  By the advent of sound film in the late 1920’s, 24 fps became the standard.

 It started in  His name was Edwin S. Porter.  He developed of the film editing for his film The Great Train.  It was the first real motion picture smash hit.  It established the notion that was commercially viable medium.

 Kelly Gang was the first feature length film.  It had a running time between minutes.

 Segundo de Chomon invented the camera dolly.  It was another 7 years before the first tracking shot was used in the Italian feature film Cabiria (1914).  It was directed by Giovanne Pastrone.

 The 35mm width with 4 perforations per frame became accepted as the international standard film gauge.  This all happened in 1909.

 D. Griffith was known as the Father of Film.  He experimented with early lighting and camera techniques that revolutionized the way we see film today.  This all happened in the 1910’s.

 The first two-color Technicolor production was The Gulf Between.  The jazz singer was the first feature-length talkie and first musical.  The first speaking cartoon with synchronized sound was Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie, debuting the character of Mickey Mouse.  The first Academy Awards were presented.

 Rouben Mamoulian was a successful Broadway director.  It was introduced a revolutionary sound technique.  It was a double-channel soundtrack with overlapping dialogue in his film Applause.

 It was the first three- strip.  It had regular exposure.  Technicolor film was Rueben Mamoulian’s “Becky Sharp”.

 T.V. broadcasting began with the BBC.  There was an “Opening Ceremony, some news”.  Then the first thing that seems to be a show.  It was called “Television Comes to London”.

 Director George Lucas’s Star Wars: Episode 2 – Attack of the Clones was the first major motion picture to be shot entirely with a digital camera.  This happened in 2002.

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