BY : Jessaca Williams
 On a summer day in 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce
made the first photographic imagewith a camera
obscura. Prior to Niepce people just used the camera
obscura for viewing or drawing purposes not for
making photographs. Joseph Nicephore Niepce's
heliographs or sun prints as they were called were the
prototype for the modern photograph, by letting light
draw the picture.
 1889 William Kennedy Laurie Dickson,
commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison,
builds the first motion-picture camera
and names it the Kinetograph.
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.
 1895 In France, Auguste and Louis Lumière hold the
first private screening. The brothers invent the
Cinématograph, a combination camera and projector.
The image of an oncoming train is said to have caused
a stampede
 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.
 1905 The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh
 1908 The first short comprised solely of animated
images, Emile Cohl's Fantasmagorie, receives its
premiere in Paris.
 1908 Humpty Dumpty Circus marks the first use of
stop-motion animation on film.
The first animation film
 1906 J. Stuart Blackton's Humorous Phases of Funny
Faces is released. It is a three-minute short in which
Blackton's hand can be seen animating drawings of
faces and people against a plain blackboard.
 1909 The New York Times publishes the first movie
review, a report on D. W. Griffith’s Pippa Passes.
 1910 Thomas Edison introduces his kinetophone,
which makes talkies a reality
 1914 In his second big-screen appearance, Charlie
Chaplin plays the Little Tramp, his most famous
character. Winsor McCay unleashes Gertie the
Dinosaur, the first animated cartoon
 1924 Walt Disneycreates his first cartoon, "Alice's
Wonderland
 1928 Walt Disney introduces Galloping Gaucho and
Steamboat Willie, the first cartoons with sound. The
Academy Awards are handed out for the first time.
Wings wins Best Picture
 1997 Titanic crashes into theaters. It is the most
expensive film of all time, costing between $250 and
$300 million to produce and market.
 1998 Titanic becomes the highest-grossing film of all
time, raking in more than $580 million domestically.
Titaniccaptures a record-tying 11 Academy Awards,
including those for Best Picture and Best Director
(James Cameron). The American Film Institute
announces its list of the top 100 films of all time.
Citizen Kane tops the list
 1999 Star Wars Episode I—The Phantom Menace
opens and breaks a string of box office records. The
film grosses $102.7 million in its debut five-day
weekend. The Blair Witch Project hits theaters and
becomes an instant cult classic. It grosses more than
$125 million at the box office and cost only $30,000 to
make.
 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.
 2001 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
creates as new category for the Oscars: Best Animated
Feature. Shrek wins the trophy. A potential strike by the
Writers Guild of America threatens to cripple Hollywood as
the WGA and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television
Producers grapple over several sticking points in their
contract, including payments to writers when films and TV
shows go to video or are broadcast as reruns. The first
installments of both the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings
movies premiere. Both go on to gross more than $300
million at the box office.
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 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 make.
 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, George Lucascompletes his sixfilm 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 10 Animated Films
 The following table lists the top 10 animated films of all
time, according to Exhibitor Relations Co., Inc., including
the rank, name, and domestic gross of each movie. Shrek 2
tops the list with $436,471,036.
 1. Shrek 2 (DreamWorks) $436,471,036 2. Finding Nemo
(Buena Vista) 339,714,978 3. The Lion King* (Buena Vista)
328,539,505 4. Shrek the Third (DreamWorks) 322,719,944
5. Shrek (DreamWorks) 267,665,011 6. The Incredibles
(Buena Vista) $261,437,578 7. Monsters, Inc. (Buena Vista)
255,870,172 8. Toy Story 2 (Buena Vista) 245,852,179 9. Cars
(Buena Vista) 244,082,982 10. Aladdin (Buena Vista)
217,350,219
Top 10 Movies of 2009
1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2. Harry Potter and
the Half-Blood Prince 3. Up 4. The Hangover 5. Star
Trek 6. Twilight Saga: New Moon 2 7. Monsters vs.
Aliens 8. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 9. X-Men
Origins: Wolverine 10. Night at the Museum: Battle of
the Smithsonian
Top 10 Movies of 2010
 1. Toy Story 3 2. Alice in Wonderland 3. Iron Man 2 4.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 5. Inception 6. Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows, Pt.1 7. Despicable Me 8.
Shrek Forever After 9. How to Train Your Dragon 10.
The Karate Kid
Top 10 Movies of 2011
 1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II 2.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon 3. Twilight Saga:
Breaking Dawn Part 1 4. The Hangover Part II 5. Pirates
of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 6. Fast Five. Cars 2
8. Thor 9. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 1 10. Captain
America: The First Avenger
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