Historical Film Timeline

  • SIEGMUND ( LUBSZYNSKI) LUBIN

    SIEGMUND ( LUBSZYNSKI) LUBIN
    It is said he was the first to try and attempt the mass marketing of the movies. The first to build chains of movie theatres and studios
  • LEONARD ULRICH KAMM

    LEONARD ULRICH KAMM
    designed and built this called the kammatograph. Could hold 500 minuscule photos
  • MAXIMILLIAN SKLADANOWSKY (1863 - 1939)

    MAXIMILLIAN SKLADANOWSKY (1863 - 1939)
    Eight short films were performed at the watergarten hall in Berlin. The show took about 15 minutes. the payigng customers watched from 16 frames per second.
  • CECIL WRAY (1866 - 1944

    CECIL WRAY (1866 - 1944
    Created a projector device, which could be attached to a magic lantern. Sold by wray to the Rileys
  • THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847 - 1931)

    THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847 - 1931)
    Begins promoting a kinetophone. Giving people a chance to listen to recorded music as they watch the film.
  • BIRT ACRES (1854 - 1918) ROUGH SEA AT DOVER

    BIRT ACRES (1854 - 1918)  ROUGH SEA AT DOVER
    This film was showed to an invited audience at Finsbury technical college in London. Later after these films, he begins to part companys with Robert Paul
  • L'Arroseur arrose (The Waterer Watered)

    L'Arroseur arrose (The Waterer Watered)
    This film was comedic film. This films plot is basically of a gardener who receives a joke played of him. A boy continues to step on the gardners water cord, causing it to ruin the water flow.
  • AUGUSTE (1862 - 1954) LOUIS (1864 - 1948) LUMIERE

    AUGUSTE (1862 - 1954) LOUIS (1864 - 1948) LUMIERE
    an animated peepshow device.Three lenses meaning three people could view at a time.
  • AMERICAN VITAGRAPH

    AMERICAN VITAGRAPH
    Founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897, in Brooklyn, New York. It produced many silent films, and later bought by Warner bros.
  • FILMING OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S DIAMOND JUBILEE

    Took place on june 22, 1897 . In a pall mall westminister in london
  • RICHARD APPLETON ( 1856 - 1946)

    RICHARD APPLETON ( 1856 - 1946)
    A new filmaker, camera,projecter, designer, and manufactoring. Appleton created a three part machine, somewhat like a priner.
  • ALFRED WRENCH ( -

    ALFRED WRENCH ( -
    Patened called cinematograph , was a projector and a camera. Using this camera, he filmed Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee procession