Ch5 Cinema
- 1878 — Eadweard Muybridge takes series of photos of a horse in motion
- 1880s – Celluloid film makes motion pictures possible
- 1886 — Biophantascope invented, one of the earliest movie projectors.
- 1893 – Edison patents Kinetoscope, demonstrates it at Chicago Worlds Fair
- 1895- The Lumiere brothers invent the Cinematographe,
- 1902- Melies produces Le Voyage dans la Lune.
- 1903 – The Great Train Robbery produced
- 1908 – Motion Picture Patents Corp. formed by Edison and others
- 1910 — Carl Laemmle sets up Independent Motion Picture Co.
- 1912 – Motion pictures begin moving out of “nickelodeons” into theaters
- 1915 – MPPC monopoly broken up by court order
- 1916 – Charlie Chaplin becomes highest paid actor in history
- 1916 – Documentary film of western land helps create National Parks
- 1918 – D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation”
- 1918 — Warner Brothers open their first studio.
- 1920 — German Expressionist film Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- 1921 – US FTC sues theater owners for refusing independent films
- 1922 — Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North, first documentary
- 1924 – MGM formed from three companies
- 1925 — Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein directs Battleship Potemkin
- 1925 – Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece, The Gold Rush, released
- 1927 — The Jazz Singer, first feature film with sound
- 1928 — Steamboat Willie cartoon by Disney
- 1928 — RKO Pictures established as RCA subsidiary
- 1929- Technicolor process is developed.
- 1930 — Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Commission) established
- 1930 – Howard Hughes directs Hells’ Angels
- 1933 – King Kong released
- 1937 – Disney releases Snow White, first feature length animation
- 1939 — “Greatest Year in Film History” includes Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.
- 1940 – Disney’s Fantasia, Chaplin’s Great Dictator released
- 1941 – Maltese Falcon launches “film noir” genre
- 1941 — Orson Welles directs “Citizen Kane.”
- 1942 – Casablanca released
- 1945 – It’s a Wonderful Life released
- 1945 — Roberto Rossellini’s Open City, Italian neo-realism
- 1945 – House UnAmerican Activities Committee investigates Hollywood
- 1947 — Britain imposes 75 percent duty on US Hollywood films
- 1948 – US v Paramount – Theater chains broken up under anti-trust laws
- 1949 — Elia Kazan’s Pinky, a “post-war problem” film
- 1950s – Film attendance declining due to television
- 1951 — Streetcar Named Desire first film to win 3 Oscars.
- 1951 — Robert E. Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still, classic Sci-Fi
- 1952 — Singin’ in the Rain musical released
- 1954 — Akiro Kurisawa’s Seven Samurai released
- 1954 — Federico Fellini La Strada
- 1955 — International Confed. Art House Cinemas founded in Germany
- 1957 – Bridge over the River Kwai released
- 1957 – Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal
- 1960 – Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho terrifies audiences
- 1962 – To Kill a Mockingbird released
- 1962 — Francois Truffaut’s Jules and Jim released
- 1962 – Stanley Kubrik’s Dr. Strangelove
- 1963 – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- 1964 — Sidney Poitier wins Best Actor for Lilies of the Field
- 1964 – Beatles star in A Hard Day’s Night
- 1966 – Hays code revised; voluntary ratings appear in 1968
- 1969 – Easy Rider introduces new wave of independent film making
- 1971 – Gordon Parks produces Shaft
- 1972 — Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” wins 3 Academy Awards
- 1975 — Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” blockbuster tops $100 million
- 1975 – Industrial Light and Magic founded by George Lucas
- 1975 – Home Box office begins on cable
- 1977 – Star Wars Released
- 1979 – China Syndrome released weeks before TMI meltdown
- 1981 — Steven Spielberg’s //Raiders of the Lost Ark//
- 1984 — Sony v. Universal City Studios, court says VCRs don’t violate copyright laws
- 1988 – Live action and cartooning combine in Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?
- 1991 – Terminator 2 costs top $100 million
- 1994 – Forest Gump uses digital effects to insert character into old footage
- 1998 – Disney’s Mulan is last film animated cell-by-cell without digital effects
- 1997 – Titanic, first to gross over $1 billion
- 2000 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon first foreign film to gross over $100 million
- 2001 – Lord of the Rings
- 2001 – Amelie released
- 2005 – Era of mass movie-going seems to be coming to a close
- 2005 – First YouTube video uploaded in April
- 2005 — DVD sales climb to $22 billion, VHS declines to $1.5 billion
- 2006 — Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth grosses $24.1 million, wins two Oscars and a Nobel Peace Prize
- 2006 — Apple and Amazon begin offering on-demand movies via Web
- 2007 – Netflix video rental delivers billionth DVD via mail.
- 2007 – Fifth Harry Potter film brings overall gross to $4.35 billion worldwide
- 2009 – Avatar uses performance capture
- 2009 – Facebook becomes new marketing tool as over 1.5 million fans flock to Where the Wild Things Are Facebook site
