By: Angelica Lafayette
1814
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Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with
camera obscura - however, the image required eight
hours of light exposure and later faded.
1840
 The first camera was invented by a man named
Alexander Wolcott. Photographs were taken prior to
that, but it wasn't really a camera that was used to
make the photographs, but a large wooden box.
1841
 William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process -
the first negative-positive process making possible the
first multiple copies.
1859-1867
 1859
Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.
 1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
 1865
Photographs and photographic negatives are added to
protected works under copyright.
 1867
The first machine patented in the United States that
showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the
"wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by
William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were
watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope.
1871
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate
silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be
developed immediately.
1880-1891
 1880
Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.
 1884
George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based
photographic film.
 1888
Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
 1891
The Edison company successfully demonstrated the
Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to
view moving pictures.
1898
Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid
photographic film.
1892
 In 1892 in the USA William Dickson, Thomas Edison's
assistant, invented the Kinetoscope, which projected
perforated film, (Edison's invention), inside a big
wooden box, viewed by one person at a time.
1894
 The Edison Corporation establishes the first motion-
picture studio, a Kinetograph production center
nicknamed the Black Maria (slang for a police van).
The first Kinetoscope parlor opens at 1155 Broadway in
New York City. Spectators can watch films for 25 cents.
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1895
 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.
1896
 Later in 1896, Edison showed his improved Vistascope
projector and it was the first commercially, successful,
projector in the U.S..
1903
 Edison Corporation mechanic Edwin S. Porter turns
cameraman, director and producer to make The Great
Train Robbery. With 14 shots cutting between
simultaneous events, this 12-minute short establishes
the shot as film's basic element and editing as a central
narrative device. It is also the first Western.
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1907
 In 1907 at least 5000 nickelodeons were operating
around the world. In the United States, a new theater
opened everyday! Often, theaters were just a screen
and chairs piled into an old store or other large
building. Early movies were "silent". Actors told the
whole story with their movements alone. Often, a
piano player would be hired to accompany the movies.
1911
 In 1911 the Nestor Company built the first movie studio
outside of New York. The location chosen was a small
town in the Southern California named Hollywood.
Within a few years, Hollywood was to become the
movie capital of the world--a position it still holds
today.
1913
 First 35mm still camera developed
1928
 Animation
Mickey Mouse's official birthday is November 18, 1928
when he made his first film debut in Steamboat Willie.
This was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released.
However, the first Mickey Mouse Cartoon ever made
was Plane Crazy in 1928, it was the third cartoon
released.
1935-1942
 1935
Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
 1941
Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.
 1942
Chester Carlson receives patent for electric
photography (xerography).
1948-1968
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Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.
1954
Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film.
1960
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for
U.S. Navy.
1963
Polaroid introduces instant color film.
1968
Photograph of the Earth from the moon
1975
 The First digital was born.
1983
 Colorization
Invented by Canadians Wilson Markle and Brian Hunt
in 1983.
1993
 Lost in Yonkers is edited on an Avid Media Composer
system, the first non-linear editing system to allow
viewing at film's required “real-time”-viewing rate of
24 frames per second. By converting film into digital
bits, film can now be cut on a computer
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2000
 Warner Bros. announces that 11-year-old British actor
Daniel Radcliffe will play the titular wizard in Harry
Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, the first film to be
adapted from the wildly popular series of young adult
books by J. K. Rowling. The film is due out
Thanksgiving 2001
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2001
 JVC (the company that developed the original VHS
format) introduced Digital VHS (D-VHS). Unlike
many other digital formats, D-VHS is totally
uncompressed - yielding superb High Definition
images twice the resolution of DVD. Being
uncompressed, motion artifacts and mosaic banding
will be things of the past. File sizes aren't small
however.... A 60 minute program will eat up 150
Gigabytes of hard drive space. The huge file sizes will
make "movie swapping" over the net impractical even with high bandwidth connections (at least here
in the US).
2002
 My Big Fat Greek Wedding becomes the most profitable
movie of all time. It earns more than $200 million at the
box office, while costing only about $5 million to
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2003
 Finding Nemo replaces The Lion King as the highest-
grossing animated film of all time. Finding Nemo
doesn't hold the honor for long. Shrek 2 shoots to the
top of the list in 2004.
2005
 With the release of Stars Wars Episode III: The
Revenge of the Sith, Georg Lucas completes his six-film
series.
2006
 The Walt Disney Co. pays $7.4 billion for Pixar
Animation Studios, the powerhouse that created the
Toy Story films, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and The
Incredibles.
top 1o movies in 2007
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Spider-Man 3 (Sony)
Shrek the Third (Paramount/Dreamworks)
Transformers (Paramount/Dreamworks)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Walt Disney)
. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Warner Bros.)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) (Warner Bros
Ratatouille (Walt Disney).
I Am Legend (Warner Bros.).
The Simpsons Movie (Fox)
Wild Hogs (Buena Vista) 168,273,550 12.
Alvin and the Chipmunks (Fox).
Knocked Up (Universal).
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Walt Disney).
Rush Hour 3 (New Line)
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Top 10 movies in 2008
 The Dark Night (Warner Bros
 Iron Man (Paramount)
 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount)
 Hancock (Sony)
 WALL-E (Walt Disney)
 Kung Fu Panda (Paramount/Dreamworks)
 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Paramount)
 Twilight (Summit Entertainment)
 Quantum of Solace (Sony)
 Dr. Suess' Horton Hears A Who! (Fox)
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Top 10 movies in 2009
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1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Up
The Hangover
Star Trek
Twilight Saga: New Moon
Monsters vs. Aliens
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
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