From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Cinematography / Films / Video Outline

Early Example of Assembly Line Production
(215 BCE – 210 BCE)

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

The First Animated Films
(October 28, 1892)

The First Practical Moving Picture Camera
(1894)

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

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
(1899)

The Rocket in Interplanetary Space
(June 1923 – 1929)

"Modern Times"
(1936)

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

Fahrenheit 451
(1953)

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

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)

"2001: A Space Odyssey"
(1968)

Replicants
(1968)

The First Major Film to Use 2D Computer Generated Images
(1973)

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

Blade Runner
(1982)

One of the First Films to Incorporate Computer Graphics
(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)

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

The First Webcam
(1991)

Jurassic Park
(1993)

DVDs
(September 1996)

"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)

"Broadcast Yourself"
(February 2005)

The Most Viewed Video on YouTube
(April 2006)

Google Buys YouTube
(November 6, 2006)

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

YouTube Surpasses 100 Million Viewers
(2009)

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 Our Vision of Virtual Reality
(December 10, 2009)

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