1910-1919
1911 Chronochrome-Gaumont, the first three-colour process for colour projection. >> Watch video Ferrocarril de Girona a Olot. Attributed to Fructuós Gelabert. 1917 The Gulf Between, the first film in Technicolor, a system for adding two colours (green and red) through two superimposed filters. |
| 1912 Production of the first X-rays plates by Forbes Dry Plate Co. 1913 Marketing of professional nitrate plates. | 1912 Edison's Home Kinetoscope, the first projector to use 22mm Safety Film. It shows 3 rows of images. Pathé brings out the Pathé Kok, the first complete camera and projector with Safety Film and a new film size, 28mm. The best-selling home movie projector between 1912 and 1922. Kinora launches a camera that allows the home filmmaker to film scenes that will later be printed on paper (frame by frame) and viewed through Kinora devices. | 1911 In a lecture to the Roentgen Society of London, Scottish engineer Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton presents the concept of electronic television that was to prevail in the 20th century: the cathode ray tube for capturing the image and as the receiver. | 1913 Edison makes several talking movies using a kinetophone. 1917 The Original Dixieland Jass Band make the first jazz recording. 1919 The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is founded. |