1. Motion Picture Timeline Mason Shoalmire

2. Fact 1 :1824 Peter Roget presents a paper that explains how to animate still pictures and the theory behind it. http://www.joshuamosley.com/UPenn/cour ses/Ani/AnimationHistory.html

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

4. Fact 3: 1839  William H. Fox makes light sensitive paper, by bathing paper in light sensitive chemicals. The first film.  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyon line/film_chron.cfm http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyon line/film_chron.cfm

5. Fact 4:1840  First American paten for the camera by Alexander Wolcott  http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinve ntions/a/Photography.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinve ntions/a/Photography.htm

6. Fact 5:1872  Eadweard Muybridge begins filming animals in motion.  http://www.joshuamosley.com/UPenn/course s/Ani/AnimationHistory.html http://www.joshuamosley.com/UPenn/course s/Ani/AnimationHistory.html

7. 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.  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyon line/film_chron.cfm http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyon line/film_chron.cfm

8. 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.  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline /film_chron.cfm http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline /film_chron.cfm

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

10. Fact 9: 1905  The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh.  One step for easy movies. One giant leap for the movie industry.  http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150210.h tml http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150210.h tml

11. Fact 10: 1913  First mass marketed camera the Brownie  http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventio ns/a/Photography.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventio ns/a/Photography.htm

12. Fact 11: 1915  The first anaglyphic film is produced.  http://www.mediacollege.com/3d/history/ http://www.mediacollege.com/3d/history/

13. Fact 12: 1917  Technicolor is introduced, adding color to films and making them better.  http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A01502 10.html http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A01502 10.html

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

15. Fact 14: 1927  General electric invents the flash bulb.  http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinve ntions/a/Photography.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinve ntions/a/Photography.htm

16. 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  http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159- video-production-equpment.html http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159- video-production-equpment.html

17. Fact 16: 1967  The Electronics Engineering Company (EECO) developed the first time code for electronic editing.  http://www.videomaker.com/article/2896- edit-suite-once-upon-a-time-the-history-of- videotape-editing http://www.videomaker.com/article/2896- edit-suite-once-upon-a-time-the-history-of- videotape-editing

18. Fact 17: 1974  First digital camera developed. It changed photography forever.  http://www.softschools.com/timelines/ca mera_timeline/32/ http://www.softschools.com/timelines/ca mera_timeline/32/

19. Fact 18: 1985  Pixar introduces the first digital image processor.  http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinve ntions/a/Photography.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinve ntions/a/Photography.htm

20. Fact 19: 1990  Camera phones begin hitting the market.  http://www.softschools.com/timelines/camer a_timeline/32/ http://www.softschools.com/timelines/camer a_timeline/32/

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