Motion Picture TimelineMason Shoalmire

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/courses/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.

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

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/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

Fact 4:1840 First American paten for the camera by

Alexander Wolcott

http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

Fact 5:1872 Eadweard Muybridge begins filming

animals in motion.

http://www.joshuamosley.com/UPenn/courses/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.

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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.

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Fact 8: 1896

Tomas Edison’s company begins projecting motion pictures. Mostly it was public, and mainly for advertising.

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

for the movie industry.

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Fact 10: 1913 First mass marketed camera the Brownie

http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

Fact 11: 1915 The first anaglyphic film is produced.

http://www.mediacollege.com/3d/history/

Fact 12: 1917 Technicolor is introduced, adding color

to films and making them better.

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Fact 13: 1919 The first American cartoon appears.

Felix the cat.

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Fact 14: 1927 General electric invents the flash bulb.

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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

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

Fact 17: 1974 First digital camera developed. It changed

photography forever.

http://www.softschools.com/timelines/camera_timeline/32/

Fact 18: 1985 Pixar introduces the first digital image

processor.

http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

Fact 19: 1990 Camera phones begin hitting the market.

http://www.softschools.com/timelines/camera_timeline/32/

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/