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  1. In 1990, New Line bought a majority stake in Robert Halmi, Inc. Entertainment, a production company specializing in Television films and miniseries. [1] [2] RHI was sold to Hallmark Cards in 1994, shortly after New Line had been acquired by Turner Broadcasting System. [3] New Line once had a television distribution shop, New Line Television ...

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    Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetismjumpstarts the era of electronic communication.

    Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires.

    Scientist Willoughby Smith experiments with selenium and light, revealing the possibility for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.

    Boston civil servant George Carey was thinking about complete television systems and in 1877 he put forward drawings for what he called a selenium camera that would allow people to see by electricity. Eugen Goldstein coins the term "cathode rays" to describe the light emitted when an electric current was forced through a vacuum tube.

    Scientists and engineers like Valeria Correa Vaz de Paiva, Louis Figuier, and Constantin Senlecq were suggesting alternative designs for telectroscopes.

    Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edisontheorize about telephone devices that transmit images as well as sound. Bell's photophoneused light to transmit sound and he wanted to advance his device for image sending. George Carey builds a rudimentary system with light-sensitive cells.

    Paul Nipkowsends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution.

    At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television." Soon after 1900, the momentum shifted from ideas and discussions to the physical development of television systems. Two major paths in the development of a television sys...

    Lee de Forest invents the Audion vacuum tube that proves essential to electronics. The Audion was the first tube with the ability to amplify signals. Boris Rosing combines Nipkow's disk and a cathode ray tube and builds the first working mechanical TV system.

    Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images. Independent of each other, they both develop electronic scanning methods of reproducing images.

  2. New Line Productions, Inc., [1] doing business as New Line Cinema, is an American film and television production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Since 2008, it has been operating as a unit of Warner Bros. Pictures . It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye as an independent film distribution company; later becoming a film studio ...

  3. Key Dates: 1967: Company is founded by Robert Shaye in New York, with a $1,000 initial investment. 1984: New Line releases first Nightmare on Elm Street movie. 1986: Company goes public. 1994: New Line is acquired by Turner Broadcasting System. 1996: Turner Broadcasting is acquired by Time Warner.

  4. New Line Home Video; New Line Television; New Line Theatrical Distribution; New Line International Releasing. Key Dates: 1967: Company is founded by Robert Shaye in New York, with a $1,000 initial investment. 1984: New Line releases first Nightmare on Elm Street movie. 1986: Company goes public. 1994: New Line is acquired by Turner Broadcasting ...

  5. Feb 29, 2008 · Feb. 29, 2008 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Roll the credits on New Line Cinema, the 40-year-old studio behind such iconic movie franchises as “The Lord of the Rings,” “Austin Powers” and ...

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  7. Following the series's cancellation in 1990, New Line launched its own television unit a year later. [lower-alpha 1] In 1990, New Line bought a majority stake in Robert Halmi, Inc. Entertainment, a production company specializing in Television films and miniseries. [1] [2] RHI was sold to Hallmark Cards in 1994, shortly after New Line had been ...

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