A BRIEF HISTORY OF FILM

1826: Joseph Nic?phore Ni?pce records the first permanent image.

1829: Sirjohn F.W. Herschel coins the term ‘photography’ (photos (light), graphein (to draw).

1834: Henry Fox Talbot creates permanent negative images from which prints can be made.

1839: Louis Daguerre invents the Daguerreotype process.

1900: The Kodak Brownie box roll-film camera arrives.

1907: The French Lumi?re brothers invent the first commercial colour film – ‘Autochrome’.

1914: Oscar Barnack, working for Leitz, develops the first 35mm camera.

1936:The arrival of Kodachrome colourfilm.

1963: Polaroid invents the first instant colour film.

1981: Sony reveals its ‘Mavica’ digital camera.