| 1990 - 1998 |
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| 1990 | Kodak announces the development of its Photo CD system. |
| Controversy over Philip Kaufman's Henry & June causes the MPAA to create a new rating, "NC-17". | |
| Hou Hsiao-Hsien's City of Sadness broaches sensitive issues of Taiwanese history and identity. | |
| Matsushita purchases the Music Corporation of America (MCA), parent company of Universal Pictures, for $6 billion. | |
| Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (TM) is the second professional image manipulation program available for Macintosh computers. | |
| Dycam releases an electronic camera for business imaging applications. | |
| Eastman Kodak prototypes
an electronic camera back designed for the needs of photojournalists. |
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| 1990-92 | Grape arbor and rock garden at George Eastman House restored. |
| 1990s | The "Eurofilm,"
with diversified funding from six or more different countries, comes of
age. |
| 1991 | The Kodak Professional Digital Camera System is introduced. |
| Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs, the first horror film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. | |
| Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books makes extensive use of computer paintbox and window technologies. | |
| Also in History: The Gulf War. | |
| Sony releases the SEPS-1000 Digital Studio Camera for modest quality advertising. | |
| Rollei and Arca Swiss announce their digital studio cameras. | |
| 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. |
| Banking concerns in France, Germany, and Luxembourg form Films Ltd. to finance major coproduction projects. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | |
| Nikon, Canon, Leaf Systems, and others announce new digital cameras for photojournalists and studio photographers respectively. | |
| LivePicture image manipulation software is announced by HSC, Inc. | |
| 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. |
| Apple Computer, Sony, and Kodak announce new digital cameras. | |
| Apple Computer introduces RISC technology to the desktop computer market with the new PowerPC line. | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Advantix Camera is introduced. | |
| Bill Gates releases Windows
95. |
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| 1997-99 | Front lawn rehabilitation at George Eastman House. |
| 1998 | Opening of George Eastman Archive and Study Center at George Eastman House. |
By George Eastman House |
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