Timeline

1877: *Edward Muybridge tries multiple shutter photography,USA

1884: *The first celluloid roll film is invented by George Eastman, USA

1888: *William Friese-Green invents a Camera-Project with multiple lenses, England

1889: *First identified moving American film called Figure with Hand on Horse, USA

1893: *The very first movie exhibition by Thomas A. Edison's Kinetoscope, USA

*Kinetographic Theater- first movie manufacturing studio, USA

1895: *Robert Paul (England) and Woodville Latham (USA)- make first clear image on a screen

*Lumiére brothers register their claw invention for film production, France

1896: *The Phonographic and Vitascope Parlor- first cinema, USA

*Georges Méliés makes the first fantasy films with trick photography, USA

1897: *H.S. Bhatvadekar (India) and Shozo Makino (Japan)- the first Asiatic film producers

1900: *Film-making of intercutting first used, film called The Life of an American Fireman by Edwin S. Porter, USA

1903: *first dramatic story film by Edward S. Porter called The Great Train Robbery , USA

1908: *Fantsamagorie is the first animated cartoon film by Emil Cohl, France

1909: *Al Christie makes the first western film in New Jersey, USA

*Carl Laemmle shows off his star system with his IMP company

1911: *David Horsley builds the first Hollywood studio, USA

1913: *Fantômas, the first 'gangster' film by Louis Feuillade, France

1914: *Giovanni Pastrone invents camera movement, Italy

*Tillie's Punctured Romance, the first comedy film, made by Charles Chaplin, USA

1915: *Birth of a Nation, the first full length film, comes out, created by D.W. Griffith, USA

1919: *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the first horror movie, Germany

1925: *The Battleship Potemkin comes out, Russia

*Louis Dufay patents a 3 color additive system called Duyfaycolor

1927: *first use of Polyvision technique, France

*First films with synchronized sound made, USA

*The Foundation of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Art and Sciences is created, USA

1928: *First Mickey Mouse film Plane Crazy (noiseless) by , who else?, Walt Disney, USA

1929: *First Mickey Mouse film with sound Steamboat Willy by Walt Disney, USA

1931: *Technicolor-first successful 3-color subtractive system, USA

1932: *Flowers and Trees is the first technicolor film by Walt Disney, USA

1935: *Becky Sharp is the first full-length feature in technicolor, USA

1938: *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first full-length feature by Walt Disney, USA

1941: *Fantasia is the first feature length film with stereographic sound, Walt Disney, USA

1948: *Hollywood's studio star contracts break-up, USA

1952: *Polyvision is now Cinerama, USA

1953: *First exhibition of Cineemascope, 3D film, and widescreen,USA

1956: *70mm film is introduced, USA

1976: *IMAX is invented, Canada

1982: *The Megaspool invention (England) earns an American Academy Award

1987: *The 60,000 foot Megaspool (England) is introduced and earns an American Academy Award, England

All this information was retrieved from the book, How Movies are Made by Gwen Cherrel.