IT Management Slideshow: 10 Technologies that Changed Hollywood

By CIOinsight  |  Posted 02-27-2009
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One of the better moments of the recent Academy Awards telecast involved Jessica Biel waxing ecstatic about software. The actress was congratulating Ed Catmull, who wrote the computer graphics software that's become the industry standard for Hollywood. Biel also gave a shout out to Jerry Lewis, who holds the patent on a key piece of movie-making technology.

Without technology, Hollywood wouldn't exist, and technology has continued to remake the art of film across the generations. Here's our celebration of geeks and film.

10 Technologies that Changed Hollywood

Lumiere Cinematographe

Before the Lumiere brothers developed a machine that could project moving pictures onto a screen, movies were seen on novelty toys and devices that allowed only one viewer at a time.

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