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First Motion Photography
Eadweard Muybridge's first successfull photography of motion. -
First kinetoscope parlor.
Edison's kinetoscope parlor opens for business in new york city. -
The Great Train Robbery
Arrival of the Train Edwin Porter directs 'The Great Train Robbery', the first movie to use editing techniques to tell a story. -
First Feature Film
'The Birth of a Nation', the first modern feature film, is released. -
The Jazz Singer
'The Jazz Singer' becomes the first 'talkie'. Silent films to Talkies: Before movies could talk, public address systems had to be improved. Many movie producers were not enthusiastic about the idea of sound. After all they were making fortunes with silent film. Some directors feared that sound would destroy the art of the film. By the mid-1920s the only sound films were shorts distributed as novelties to the few state-of-the art theaters that could show them. -
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THE GOLDEN AGE
Considered a time period where some of the best american movies were ever made, and about 75% of the population went to the movies every week. -
The End of The Studio Monopoly
The golden age of movies ended with the demise of the big studio monopoly. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s competitors of the established studios complained o the government that it was impossible for new studios to get started. -
Television Programming begins.
Hollywood begins to produce television programming.
Reacting to TV: Movie attendance peaked in 1946, and there were many reasons for the decline. In post world war II boom, couples moved to the suburbs to raise their children, leaving the huge old movie places behind. The biggest reason for the decline in movie attendance, though was people were staying home and watching television. Television ownership grew steadily during the 1950s, and more than 90 percent of American homes had television set -
Rating system created.
The Motion Pictures Association of America's rating system goes into effect. -
VHS
Video-cassete recorders were introduced in the 1970s, and by the 1980s the motion picture industry was convinced it would lead to its ruin. They fought a couple of legal battles over it which peaked in 1983 and became known as the sony-betamax case. The supreme court ruled that video recording for private use does not infringe copywrite. -
Digital Editing.
Studios begin to use digital editing and special effects. -
War of Pirates.
Hollywood declares war on file-sharers of copywrited films. -
3D TAKEOVER.
Big-Budget 3-D movies like Avatar revive the box office. -
First Theater Production
Edison released his first theater projector, the vitoscope, and it was a sensation. Before long small theaters were popping up everywhere, and they were called 'nickelodeans'. Nickel because it costed a nickel, and 'odean' means theater in greek.
