List of cinematic firsts

This page lists chronologically the first achievements in cinema. The development of cinema is characterised by technological breakthroughs, from early experiments in the recording of day-to-day activity, experiments in colour, different formats and sound. From the 1970s, the development of computer-generated imagery has become integral to the way that films are produced.

In parallel with the developments in technology, its content and the way it reflects society and its concerns and the way society responds to it have changed too. The list attempts to address some of these events.

Contents

19th century: 1820s1830s1860s1870s1880s1890s
20th century: 1900s1910s1920s1930s1940s1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s
21st century: 2000s2010s
See also
References

19th century

1820s

1824

  • Peter Mark Roget's wrote the article Explanation of an optical deception in the appearance of the spokes of a wheel when seen through vertical apertures which was the first reference to persistence of vision.

1830s

1832

  • Almost simultaneously around December 1832 by the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and the Austrian professor of practical geometry Simon Stampfer invented the Phenakistiscope, the first practical device to create a fluid illusion of motion.

1860s

1867-68

  • Chronophotography is the first time that movement is captured in several frames of print.

1870s

1874

  • French astronomer P.J.C. Janssen came up with the idea for a "revolver photographic". This huge camera system used a Maltese cross-type mechanism, very similar to the system that would later be of great importance in the development of movie cameras. He successfully captured both transits of Venus, 1874 in Japan, that of 1882 at Oran in Algeria. The motion picture was known as Passage de Venus[1]

1878

1880s

1880

  • Eadweard Muybridge projects the moving images of Sallie Gardner at a Gallop on a screen when he gave a presentation[4] at the California School of Fine Arts, making this exhibit the earliest known motion picture exhibition.

1882

1888

1890s

1889 or 1890

1891

  • Dickson Greeting aka Monkeyshines 2, by William Kennedy Dickson is the first public demonstration of motion pictures in the United States. The National Federation of Women’s Clubs are shown a 3 second clip of Dickson passing a hat in front of himself, and reaching for it with his other hand on May 20, 1891 at Edison's laboratory.

1892

1893

  • Blacksmith Scene, by William Kennedy Dickson. The first Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition on May 9, 1893 and is the earliest known example of actors performing a role in a film.[7]
  • The world's first film production studio, the Black Maria, or the Kinetographic Theater, was completed on the grounds of Edison's laboratories at West Orange, New Jersey, for the purpose of making film strips for the Kinetoscope. Construction began in December 1892.[8]

1894

  • On April 14, 1894, a public Kinetoscope parlor was opened by the Holland Bros. in New York City at 1155 Broadway, on the corner of 27th Street—the first commercial motion picture house. The venue had ten machines, set up in parallel rows of five, each showing a different movie. For 25 cents a viewer could see all the films in either row; half a dollar gave access to the entire bill.[9]
  • Dorlita in the Passion Dance Banned in New Jersey after use in peepshows. Russell Kick quotes the work Censorship as saying it "was probably the first [film] to be banned in the United States."[10]
  • la Sortie des Usines, the first film to be made in France.
  • The Dickson Experimental Sound Film by William Kennedy Dickson. It is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Thomas Edison.[11]

1895

1896

  • The first building dedicated exclusively to showing motion pictures was the Vitascope Hall, established on Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana June 26 — it was converted from a vacant store.[15]
  • Later that year on October 19, the Edisonia Hall opened in Buffalo, New York in the Ellicott Square Building. The Edisonia was the first known dedicated, purpose-built motion picture theater in the world.[16]
  • Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female film director[17] makes La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy) acknowledged as the first narrative fiction film. This movie also introduces screenplays for the first time.
  • In The Kiss, May Irwin and John Rice re-enact the kiss from the New York stage hit The Widow Jones, the first film of a couple kissing.[18]

1899

20th century

1900s

1901

1902

1904

1906

1907

  • January 19, Variety publishes reviews of two films, An Exciting Honeymoon and The Life of a Cowboy by Edwin S. Porter. These are believed to be the first film reviews published.[27]
  • L'Enfant prodigue is the first feature film produced in Europe.

1908

1909

  • The first full length feature film produced in the United States was an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables.
  • The first film shot from an aeroplane took place in April 1909. Wilbur Wright was training military personnel and took a newsreel cameraman on a flight in Rome to record this.[30]

1910s

1910

1912

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

1920s

1921

1922

1923

  • 16 mm film is introduced by Eastman Kodak in the United States.

1927

1928

1929

  • The First Academy Award ceremony takes place at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles on May 1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans wins the award for "Unique and Artistic Production" (denoting artistic strength) and Wings wins the award for "Outstanding Picture, Production" (denoting technical production quality). Both awards were eliminated and merged the next year into the single Best Picture category. Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor won the awards for best actor and actress, which were awarded for work in a number of different films throughout the year. Acting categories were later narrowed to honor work on a single film.[43]
  • Blackmail, directed by Alfred Hitchcock was the first British sound film.

1930s

1930

1931

  • Peludópolis, directed by Qirino Christiani is the first animated feature with sound.[34]

1932

1933

1935

1937

1940s

1940

1943

1946

1947

  • First feature film in 3D and partly in color: Robinson Crusoe by Alexander Andreyevsky.[38]

1948

1950s

1951

1953

1960s

1964

1970s

1970

1971

1973

1975

  • Jaws was the first summer blockbuster film.
  • Barry Lyndon was the first film with scenes shot entirely by natural candlelight.

1976

1977

1978

1980

1981

  • Looker by is the first film to feature a CGI human character, Cindy. Also, first use of 3D shaded CGI.[59][60]

1982

  • For Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, ILM computer graphics division develops "Genesis Effect", the first use of fractal-generated landscape in a film.[61] Bill Reeves leads the Genesis Effect programming team, and creates a new graphics technique called Particle Systems.

1983

1984

1985

1986

  • At the Canada Pavilion in Expo 86, Vancouver, Canada the first showing of 3D Imax takes place.[54]

1988

1990s

1990

  • The Rescuers Down Under is both Disney's first theatrical sequel and Hollywood’s first feature film digitally colored and assembled entirely on computers, using the studio’s proprietary “Computer Animation Production System” (CAPS).

1991

  • Beauty and the Beast is the first animated film to have an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

1993

1995

  • Toy Story by John Lasseter is the first feature film to be made entirely using CGI.[68]
  • Casper, the first CGI lead character in feature-length film (preceded Toy Story by six months).
  • Party Girl is the first film to premiere on the internet on June 3, 1995.[69]

1997

21st century

2000s

2000

2001

2002

  • Russian Ark by Alexander Sokurov is the first feature film to be shot entirely in uncompressed high definition video.[74] It is also the first feature film to consist of a single unedited take.[74]

2004

2008

2010s

2010

  • Avatar by James Cameron, the first 3-D film to be the highest grossing film of all time, surpassing the 2D ones.

2016

2019

  • The Lion King by Jon Favreau, the first fully CGI "Live action" movie.[82]
  • Parasite by Bong Joon-ho, the first film not in the English language to win Academy Award for Best Picture.
  • Avengers Endgame, by the Russo Brothers, the first sequel film to top all originals to become the highest grossing film of all time.
  • Witch Tales, by Mike T. Lyddon, the first horror anthology feature movie filmed simultaneously in Spanish and English languages and released respectively as Witch Tales and Cuentos de la Bruja.

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