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1990 |
Kodak announces the development of
its Photo CD system. |
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Controversy over Philip Kaufman's
Henry & June causes the MPAA to create a new
rating, "NC-17". |
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (TM) is the
second professional image manipulation program available for
Macintosh computers. |
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Dycam releases an electronic camera
for business imaging applications. |
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Eastman Kodak prototypes an
electronic camera back designed for the needs of
photojournalists. |
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1990s |
The "Eurofilm," with diversified
funding from six or more different countries, comes of
age. |
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1991 |
The Kodak Professional Digital Camera
System is introduced. |
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Jonathan Demme's The Silence of
the Lambs, the first horror film to win an Academy Award
for Best Picture. |
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Peter Greenaway's Prospero's
Books makes extensive use of computer paintbox and window
technologies. |
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Also in History: The Gulf War. |
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Sony releases the SEPS-1000 Digital
Studio Camera for modest quality advertising. |
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Rollei and Arca Swiss announce their
digital studio cameras. |
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Electronic imaging plays an important
role in coverage of the Gulf War. Although most still-image
photojournalists on the scene use conventional cameras and
film for shooting, electronic techniques are widely employed
to transmit the pictures home. |
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1992 |
James Cameron's Terminator 2:
Judgment Day, exemplary in its use of digital computer
technology. |
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Banking concerns in France, Germany,
and Luxembourg form Films Ltd. to finance major coproduction
projects. |
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Leaf Systems announces the Leaf
camera back for studio cameras, such as Hasselblad or
Sinar. |
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1993 |
Steven Spielberg's Jurassic
Park surpasses E.T. as the top-grossing movie of
all time. The film's creatures were generated by
computer. |
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Jane Campion's The Piano is
part of a worldwide cycle of "Heritage films," often adapted
from acclaimed works of literature and notable for their
exquisite attention to period detail and for reaching beyond
the traditional art-film audience to the mainstream. |
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Nikon, Canon, Leaf Systems, and
others announce new digital cameras for photojournalists and
studio photographers respectively. |
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LivePicture image manipulation
software is announced by HSC, Inc. |
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Adobe Photoshop is available for
MS-DOS/Windows platforms. |
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1994 |
Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump
adds digitally fabricated figures to historically famous
documentary film footage. |
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Apple Computer, Sony, and Kodak
announce new digital cameras. |
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Apple Computer introduces RISC
technology to the desktop computer market with the new PowerPC
line. |
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Associated Press announces the
AP/Kodak NC2000 digital camera for photojournalists. |
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1995 |
Toy Story, the first
full-length feature composed completely of computer
animation. |
|
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The film Lumière et Cie (Lumière
and Company) by 39 contemporary filmmakers - including
directors Spike Lee, the producer-director team of Ismail
Merchant and James Ivory, and Zhang Yimou - is made under the
conditions in which the Lumière cameramen had worked, using a
restored Cinématographe camera and with film prepared
according to the original Lumière formula. |
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1996 |
Advanced Photo System (APS) is
introduced, a new system of photography integrating a 24-mm
film format, cameras, and photofinishing equipment. Features
of the system include: leaderless cassette, easy loading and
unloading, smaller cameras, three print formats - standard,
moderate wide-angle, and panoramic - interchangeable on the
same roll of film. |
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Advantix Camera is introduced. |
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Bill Gates releases Windows 95. |
