Timeline

•  1894 Fred Ott’s Sneeze (Edison)

•  1894 Sandow the Strongman (Edison)
•  1895 Workers Leaving the Factory (Lumières)
•  1902 A Trip to the Moon (Méliès)
•  1903 The Great Train Robbery (Porter)
•  1905 Rescued by Rover (Hepworth)
•  1908 Beginning use of intertitles for lines of dialogue
•  1915 Birth of a Nation (Griffith)
•  1925 The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
•  1926 Vertov, “Kino-Eye”
•  1927, The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland) and the beginning of sound-synchronized talking film
•  1929 Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov)
•  1929 Eisenstein, “The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram”; “A Dialectic Approach to Film Form”; “The
Filmic Fourth Dimension”; “Methods of Montage”
•  1935 Eisenstein, “Film Form: New Problems”
•  1936 Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
•  1936 Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
•  1939 Eisenstein, “The Structure of the Film”
•  1939 Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming) and the rise of color film
•  1945 Bazin, “The Ontology of the Photographic Image”
•  1946 It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
•  1953 Tokyo Story (Yasujiru Ozu)
•  1955-1959 The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray)
•  1958 The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
•  1959 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
•  1964 Barthes, “The Rhetoric of the Image”