| YEAR |
EVENT |
| 1830 |
The Zoetrope is invented. It consisted of a spinning drum with slits that you could see small pictures through, making it seem that they moved. |
| 1895 |
The Lumière brothers had their first public showing of a short movie. |
| 1907 |
deForest invents amplified sound, thus enabling recording and reproduction of sound. |
| 1922 |
Emergence of first colour reproduction system, with only two colours. |
| 1924 |
Scotsman Baird invents television. The first system had only five lines, compared to today´s about 625 lines. |
| 1926 |
Vitaphone synchronises sound with picture. The sound was stored on 78 records. |
| 1927 |
The first television pictures are sent across the Atlantic ocean. |
| 1927 |
The movie "The Jazz singer", starring Al Jolson, had parts with synchronised sound. |
| 1935 |
Feature films in colour. |
| 1952 |
The 3D-format was developed as a way to combat the competion from TV. |
| 1953 |
CinemaScope and 4-channel sound was developed, also to win back audience from TV. |
| 1980s |
The homevideo and satellite TV are introduced worldwide, as well as computer games and video games. |
| 1996 |
The first fully computer animated feature film, Toy Story, comes out. |
