1940-1949

<< Cinema >>

1940

First successful use in the cinema of the blue chroma, in the film The thief of Baghdad.

1948

Kodak made the 35mm cellulose triacetate film. The new carrier, called safety film, would completely replace the cellulose nitrate base in a few years.

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<< Photography >>

1942

Introduction of colour negative film and print process.

1942

Black and white snapshot photography arrives with Polaroid.

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<< Amateur Film >>

1944

After the break due to the war and the German occupation, Pathé-Baby resumes its activity with a new range of cameras and projectors called "Webo" after the name of their designer Jean Wesbrodt.

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1947

>> Watch video Torroella de Montgrí y su fiesta mayor. Narcís Sans.

<< Television and video >>

1940

CBS engineer Peter Carl Goldmark demonstrates a television system based on the sequential transmission of the three primary colours. The beginning of the development of colour television

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<< Sound >>

1940

First use of stereophonic sound in a film: Walt Disney's Fantasia

1942

Helmut Krüger makes the first recordings on stereophonic magnetic tape for German radio in Berlin.

1947

John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Houser Brattain, researchers at the Bell Telephone Company, invent the germanium transistor.

1948

Columbia Records patents Long Play records, which spin at a speed of 33? rpm.

1949

The 45 rpm or single record appears, used by record companies to launch their new releases.

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