Creation: week 4 - big screen to small

This week we were given a special treat. And no, it was not my presence in the lecture room (har har), it was a film related lecture. Yay!
Josh gave us a brief history of the cinema. With this post I plan to give an even briefer history, making it almost irrelevant.

1895 - Birth of cinema
1906 - First feature length narrative is released IN AUSTRALIA! (Ned Kelly film)
1929 - The first all colour movie that was recorded in colour and not colourised in post production.
1933 - First drive in theater created.
1937 - Disney releases Snow White. First full length, all colour, singing, animated movie.
1940s - Mass production in Hollywood.
1952 - Movies on TV
1956 - AMPEX makes first video recorder. Priced around $50, 000 and not very practical.
1963 - AMPEX releases consumer video recorder - $30, 000 & Multiplex theater is born (reduction of screen size).
1967-69 - Sony introduces VCR + Portapak.
1970 - Birth of IMAX (returning to massive screen size).
1972 - Pay TV comes out. Producers discover they can sell movies to Pay TV and then to regular TV.
1985 - Blockbuster video store opens.
1995 - Pixar releases Toy Story.
1997 - DVD video becomes available.