Cinematography / Motion Pictures / Video Timeline Outline

Early Christians May Have Destroyed What Remained of the Alexandrian Library Because of its Pagan Contents
(391 CE)

Recording Scientific Results Graphically
(1878)

The First Practical Moving Picture Camera & an Early Motion Picture Display Device
(1888 – 1894)

One of the Most Dramatic Problems in the Preservation of Media
(1889)

The First Animated Films
(October 28, 1892)

The First Known Motion Picture with Live-Recorded Sound: Invention of the Kinetophone
(1893 – 1895)

The First Moving Picture
(Circa 1894 – March 19, 1895)

The First Silent Movie Copyrighted in the U. S.
(January 9, 1894)

The Invention of Cinematography
(February 13, 1895)

The First Private Screening of a Motion Picture
(March 22, 1895)

The First Public Screening of a Film at the World's First and Oldest Cinema
(September 28, 1895)

The First Public Commerical Screening of Films
(December 28, 1895)

Perhaps the Earliest Example of Stop-Motion Animation
(December 1899)

The Rocket in Interplanetary Space
(June 1923 – 1929)

The First Full-Length Film with Synchronized Dialogue
(October 1927)

The First All-Talking Feature Film
(1928)

Visionary of New Reading Machines and Changes in the Process of Reading
(1930 – 1931)

Kodachrome
(1935 – 1936)

"Modern Times"
(1936)

Elektro, the Most Famous Robot of the 1930s
(1937 – 1938)

Actress Hedy Lamarr Invents Spread-Sprectrum
(1940)

Probably the Best "Book Store" Film Noir
(1952)

"Fahrenheit 451"
(1953 – 2011)

One of the Earliest Surviving British Television Dramas
(December 12 – December 14, 1954)

The Sensorama
(1955 – 1962)

The First Video Tape Recorder
(1956)

Standing up to Censorship and McCarthyism
(1956)

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" Filmed
(1956)

Satirizing the Role of Automation in Eliminating Jobs, and Librarians
(1957)

The First Computer-Animated Film
(1961)

"A Computer Technique for the Production of Animated Movies"
(1963 – 1964)

Origin of the Concept of Technological Singularity
(1965)

"2001: A Space Odyssey"
(1968)

Replicants
(1968)

The First Widely-Attended International Exhibition of Computer Art
(August 2 – October 20, 1968)

The Laserdisc
(1969 – December 15, 1978)

The First Major Film to Use 2D Digital Image Processing
(1973)

The First Major Film to Incorporate 3D Computer Generated Images
(1976)

Vol Libri: The First Fractal CGI Movie
(1979 – 1980)

Blade Runner
(1982)

One of the First Films to Incorporate Computer Graphics
(1982)

The First Completely Computer-Generated (CGI) Cinematic Image Sequence in a Feature Film
(1982)

The First Fully Computer-Generated Character in a Film
(1985)

Probably the Best Book History and Library Film Set in the Middle Ages
(1986)

Slow Fires
(1987)

The First Computer-Animated Film to Win an Academy Award
(1988)

Invention of "Buffered Media," the Basis for Webcasting
(1989)

The First Film to Win an Academy Award for Computer Generated Images
(1989)

TED: Technology, Entertainment and Design
(1990)

The First Webcam
(1991)

Jurassic Park
(1993)

The Beginning of Video Webcasting over the Internet
(June 1993)

The First Full-Time Online Webcam Girl
(April 1996 – 2003)

DVDs are Introduced.
(September 1996 – March 1997)

"You've Got Mail"
(1998)

On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age
(1998)

The Matrix
(1999)

Conflicts between Androids and Men
(2001)

The First Attempt to Make a Photorealistic Computer Animated 3D Feature Film
(July 11, 2001)

Minority Report
(2002)

Machinima
(2002)

Apple Opens the iTunes Store
(April 28, 2003)

"Broadcast Yourself"
(February 2005)

The First Video is Uploaded to YouTube
(April 23, 2005)

Disney Acquires Pixar
(January 24, 2006)

The Most Viewed Video on YouTube as of 2009
(April 2006 – May 9, 2009)

The Biggest Music Retailer in the World: Apple's iTune Store
(April 23, 2006)

Molecular Animation
(July 30, 2006 – August 3, 2007)

Google Buys YouTube
(November 6, 2006)

YouWitnessNews
(December 5, 2006)

Drama in the Context of a Telephone Exchange (1928)
(2008)

The First Collaborative Online Orchestra
(April 15, 2009)

Using YouTube Videos to Study the Origins of Music in Societies
(April 30, 2009)

Convergence of Media: Packaging Blu-ray Discs in Books
(December 2009)

The Film "Avatar" and Visions of Reality, Virtual and Otherwise
(December 10, 2009)

After Five Years, More Than Two Billion Views Per Day
(May 16, 2010)

"The Social Network"
(October 1, 2010)

The First Independently Published Magazine Exclusively for the iPad
(January 2011)

Microsoft Acquires Skype for $8.5 Billion
(May 2011)

In May 2011 Netflix was the Largest Source of Internet Traffic in North America
(May 2011)

Steve Jobs Dies
(October 5, 2011)

More than One Trillion Videos Were Played Back on YouTube in 2011
(December 20, 2011)

What Makes Spoken Lines in Movies Memorable
(April 30, 2012)

Computer Graphic Animation Indistinguishable from Nature
(December 22, 2012)

Billboard Starts to Include YouTube Streams in its Calculation of the Most Popular Songs of the Week
(February 20, 2013)

Drone Pilots Experience Stress Possibly Greater than Actual Combat Pilots
(February 23, 2013)