Week 4: Big Screen to Small

A Brief History of Cinema

1895: The Birth of Cinema- on December 28th, in Paris, France.

1906: 1st Full Length Feature Film released- 'The Story of the Kelly gang'.

1927: The Birth of the 'Talkies'- Warner Bros released the 'The Jazz singer' the first feature- length movie with dialogue.

1929: First 100% Natural Colour, Talking, Singing, Dancing Picture.

1933: The first Drive-In opened.

1937: Disney releases Snow white- First full length animated feature.

1939: Television- First TV sets for sale to the American Public.

1952: 3D Films- First feature-length 3D sound film released, inspiring a vast amount of quick, cheap, but sometimes successful 3D features.

1955: Movies on TV

1956: AMPEX Corporation develops the first Video recorder at a price of $50,000.

1959: Smell-O-Vision

1963: AMPEX released first consumer version of the video recorder at a price of $30,000 and

Multiplex is born.

1967: Sony releases the PortaPak.

1969: Sony then releases the VCR.

1970: Birth of IMAX.

1972: Birth of Cable TV.

1981: Birth of MTV.

1985: The first blockbuster video store opens.

1986: Pixar's first film released- first fully computer-generated, computer-animated film.

1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit released- first live-action and animation film.

1995: Toy story released- first totally-digital feature-length animated film.

1997: Dvd's released.

1998: HDTV

1999: Birth of TiVo

2005: Blu-Ray Disc is released to the world and video's are the thing of the past, with the last

major movie, A History of Violence, being released on video cassette.

2006: Ahh You Tube. Where would I be without you?

2007: First Broadband released.