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film created by Eadweard Muybridge
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Edison unveils Kinetoscope, a device that allows one person at a time to view motion pictures.
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Auguste and Louis Lumiere give the first public showing of the Cinematographe, a device that projects motion pictures on a screen.
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Edwin S. Porter produces The Great Train Robbery, the first narrative film.
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First nickelodeon opens in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Technicolor is introduced.
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Radio is invented and preferred over silent films by public. Film industry begins to decline.
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Warner Brothers produce full-length singing and talking film called The Jazz Singer with popular singer and stage actor during this time named Al Jolson. The audience loved it!
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Motion pictures were at their peak during this time.
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Motion picture industry was monopolized by film studios.
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United States Supreme Court ruled that studios could not own theaters because it gave the studios exclusive control over making and selling movies.
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Television overtakes movies in popularity; color replaces black and white movies in theaters; theaters then attempt to win audiences back with 3-D pictures and replacing black and white movies with color.
