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The development of film.

  • Film invented

    Film invented
    Film was invented by someone named Louis Le Prince.
  • Nickelodeon movie houses

    Nickelodeon movie houses
    More than 10,000 nickelodeon movie houses were in the United States. Which caused Hollywood's rise to a position of global influence.
  • German's

    German's
    Germans banned foreign films creating a sharp increase in the demand for domestic film production, from 24 films in 1914 to 130 films in 1918. With inflation also on the rise, Germans were attending films more freely because they knew that their money's value was constantly diminishing.
  • Hollywood actors.

    Hollywood actors.
    Some of Hollywood's biggest names, include Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks rebelled against the studios and started United Artists promising to give actors more control of their own careers.
  • Walt Disney

    Walt Disney
    In the 1920s Walt Disney arrived in Hollywood and started producing moving cartoons, painted directly onto film cells. In 1928, he produced “Steamboat Willie” and its star, Mickey Mouse
  • Jazz Singer

    Jazz Singer
    In 1927," the Jazz Singer" released synchronizing sound and images for the first time.
  • The rise of Horror

    The rise of Horror
    In the 1930s Horror movies existed very early on in film history, but they had a renaissance in the 1930s where “Dracula,” “Frankenstein,” “The Mummy,” “The Invisible Man,” “King Kong,” “The Bride of Frankenstein” and “The Werewolf of London” were all produced within four years of one another.
  • The spectacular films

    The spectacular films
    “The Godfather,” “The Exorcist,” “Jaws,” “Apocalypse Now,” and even 1977s “Star Wars” came out. The New Hollywood saw a shift from studios to directors in the vision behind films with stars like Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and others coming into significant power and influence in the industry.
  • Indian cinema

    Indian cinema
    In the 1990 to 2000. Indian cinema has been around for a long time, with a Golden Age in the 1940s, but what’s called “New Bollywood” gained worldwide recognition outside of India in the late 1990s and early 2000s