1930-1939
1931 The Nicolau brothers patent the first toy film projector in Barcelona: the Cine NIC.
>> Watch video Cine Nic (La llum del cinema series). >> Watch video Cine Isuar (La llum del cinema series). >> Watch video Cine Skob (La llum del cinema series). 1933 The appearance of the first drive-in theatres in the United States. 1935 Louis Lumière presents a prototype for screening films in 3D to the French Academy of Science. Becky Sharp, by Rouben Mamoulian, the first feature-length film shot entirely using the three-strip Technicolor process. 1937 Appearance of the Cinérama, a multi-projection process on a curved panoramic screen with three synchronized projectors. 1938 1939 The first screening of stereoscopic images using polarized filters. |
| 1932 Photoelectric photometer. 1934 Fuji Photo Film Company is founded. 1935 First modern colour film, Kodachrome.
| 1930 Paillard-Bolex, one of the most prestigious makers of home filmmaking devices, is founded. >> Watch video El rapte de Maria Rosa. Antoni Varés. 1932 Kodak markets 8mm film. Cine Kodak Eight Camera. RCA Victor brings out the first optical sound projector aimed at amateurs (16mm). Eric M. Bern announces the first home movie camera equipped with a sound recording system.
1935 Eumig C2. The first camera made with a light meter. Eumig C4: the first with electrical film winding. 1936 Two new formats of colour film for home filmmaking come onto the market: Kodachrome and Agfacolor. The Bolex H16 by the Swiss firm Paillard comes on to the market. For over thirty years it will be one of the best-selling 16mm cameras in the world. 1937 Pathé launches the Pathé Vox, one of the first sound projectors. Kodak introduces the first 16mm sound film for the Sound Kodascope Special Projector. | 1936 BBC One, the oldest television channel in the world, begins regular broadcasting.
| 1933 Basing themselves on Pfleumer's experiments, German firms AEG and BASF join forces to develop magnetic tape for sound recording. Edwin Howard Armstrong patents FM (Frequency Modulation) radio. Based on the work of Alan Blumlein, the first stereophonic record is produced. 1935 BASF makes the first magnetophonic tapes on a plastic support (cellulose acetate).
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