2.  The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. But in truth, several others had made similar inventions around the same time as Lumiere. What Lumiere invented was a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe, three functions covered in one invention.

3.  Fantasmagorie is an 1908 French animated film by Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation, and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon

4.  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature in motion picture history, the first animated feature film produced in the United States, the first produced in full color, the first to be produced by Walt Disney Productions, and the first in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. [animated filmWalt DisneyRKO Radio Picturesfairy tale Brothers Grimmcel animatedfeature filmWalt Disney ProductionsWalt Disney Animated Classics [

5.  Charles Ginsburg led the research team at Ampex Corporation in developing the first practical videotape recorder (VTR). In 1951, the first video tape recorder (VTR) captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses and saving the information onto magnetic tape.

6. First Movie Ever Made for Projection -- Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) First Movie Ever Shot (U.S.A.) - Monkeyshines No. 1 (1889 or 1890)

7.  One of the first patented motion-picture film cameras was designed by Louis Le Prince in 1888. It still exists with the National Media Museum, England. Le Prince employed paper bands and celluloid film from John Carbutt and or Blair & Eastman in 1¾ inch width.patentedmotion-picture filmcamerasLouis Le Prince National Media MuseumLe PrinceJohn Carbutt

8.  "Photography" is derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw") The word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. It is a method of recording images by the action of light, or related radiation, on a sensitive material.

9.  The beginnings of mechanical television can be traced back to the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873, the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884 and John Logie Baird's demonstration of televised moving images in 1926.photoconductivity seleniumWilloughby Smithscanning diskPaul Gottlieb NipkowJohn Logie Baird

10.  The First Motion Picture Ever Made - The Horse In Motion (1878)

11.  First Home Movie Ever Made - Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)

12.  First Motion Picture Projected for an Audience - Berlin Wintergarten Novelty Program (1895)