List of years in film

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This page indexes the individual year in film pages. Each year is annotated with its significant events.

19th century in film

Before Muybridge's 1878 work, photo sequences were not recorded in real-time because light-sensitive emulsions needed a long exposure time. The sequences were basically made as time-lapse recordings. It is possible that people at the time actually viewed such photographs come to life with a phénakisticope or zoetrope (this certainly happened with Muybridge's work).

1870s

  • photographic revolver' photograph the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun. They were purportedly taken in Japan. It is the oldest film on IMDb
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  • 1878
    • The Horse in Motion, British photographer Eadweard Muybridge take a series of "automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse. Muybridge shot the photographs in June 1878. An additional card reprinted the single image of the horse "Occident" trotting at high speed, which had previously been published by Muybridge in 1877. The most famous of these electro-photographs is "Sallie Gardner" taken on June 19, 1878. Railroad tycoon Leland Stanford hired Muybridge to settle the questions of whether a galloping horse ever had all four of its feet off the ground. Muybridge's photos showed the horse with all four feet off the ground. Muybridge went on a lecture tour showing his photographs on a moving-image device he called the zoopraxiscope.
    • Le singe musicien, first animated movie using the praxinoscope.

1880s

  • Louis Lumiere film "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory", which is considered the first motion picture.[1]
  • 1885 – American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use; L'homme Machine, directed by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey. The oldest black and white animated known film.
  • Alice Guy Blache creates "La Fee aux Chou", also knowns as "the Fairy of the Cabbages", in France. Although many other films are seen as first moments of 'movie magic,' this film stands out as the first.[2][3]
  • 1886Louis Le Prince is granted an American dual-patent on a 16-lens device that combines a motion picture camera with a projector.
  • 1887Man Walking Around a Corner, directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. The oldest known film. Although according to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary The First Film it's not film, but a series of photographs, 16 in all, each taken from one of the lens from Le Prince's camera. Pictures from the film were sent in a letter dated 18 August 1887 to his wife. Le Prince went on to develop the one lens camera and on the 14th October 1888 he finally made the world's first moving image, Roundhay Garden Scene.
  • 1888Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving film by French inventor Louis Le Prince, is shot in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, through a groundbreaking 20 frames per second. Others short films made at the same time were Accordion Player and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge.
  • Eastman Kodak is the first company to begin commercial production of film on a flexible transparent base, celluloid
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1890s

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

See also

References

  1. ^ "Lumiere brothers | Biography, Inventions, Movies, & Facts | Britannica".
  2. ^ "The Cabbage Patch Fairy (1900) A Silent Film Review". 7 April 2019.
  3. ^ "The true story of Alice Guy-Blaché, the world's first female filmmaker".
  4. ^ "Library of Congress American Memory". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
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  6. ^ Ramsaye, Terry (May 1922). "The Romantic History of the Motion Picture". Photoplay. 22 (6). New York City: Photoplay Publishing Company: 32–35, 95. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
  7. ^ "A History of Horror".
  8. ^ "Salvador Toscano | Director, Cinematographer, Producer". IMDb.
  9. ^ "Who's Who of Victorian Cinema".
  10. ^ "Hiralal Sen | Director". IMDb.
  11. ^ "World's first colour film footage viewed for first time". BBC News England. 12 September 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
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