Unit 8 - Changes in film making technology

Below is the time line of how the history of the technology of film making and how things have changed
1897 - The first rotating camera for panning shots created for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
1898 - Double exposure of films is discovered.
1899 - The first use of animation in films
1899 - Changing the film's speed of motion first appeared.
1900 - Shot continuity definitively established by George Albert Smith and James Williamson
            First reverse Angle cut used in 'Attack on a China Mission Station'
            First five minute film created by James Williamson
1903 - The chase method of film making was extended by several British films.
            The Great Train Robbery, the first film with multiple shots and locations was produced
1906 - 'The Story of the Kelly Gang', the first feature length film was produced in Australia.
1909 - The first feature length adaption of  Les Misérables
1927 - The first non Silent Film was released.
1941 - 'Citizen Kane' sets the standard for modern day (war) films
1967 - Multiscreen now known as Imax was founded
1968 - MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) established to rate films
1976 - Rocky was the first film to use a training montage
1977 - the first Star Wars film was released and is now considered one of the most important films in the history of the medium
1977 - ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) created to provide the special effects for Star Wars and is now used
1982 - George Lucas establishes THX.ltd as a division of LucasFilm.ltd
1988 - 'Who framed Rodger Rabbit' was the first film to combine live action actors with hand drawn cartoons
1993 - Jurassic park was the first film to seamlessly mix CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) with life size models
1995 - Disney Pixar's 'Toy Story was the first feature length film to be made with CGI
2002 - First successful use of motion capture in 'Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' with the character Gollum
2003 - 'The Matrix Revolutions' was the first live action film to be shot with Imax 3D cameras.
2009 - James Cameron's 'Avatar' became the highest grossing film of all time so far after his previous film 'Titanic'