Cinema history By Malutki Kotek Oct 14, 1888 First film-Roundhay Garden Scene May 20, 1891 Thomas Edison invented kinetoscope Jan 7, 1894 Thomas Edison records Fred Ott's Sneeze Feb 13, 1894 Auguste and Louis Lumiere developed a cinematographe Dec 28, 1895 La Sortie de I'usine Lumiere a Lyon Period: Jan 1, 1899 to Dec 31, 1899 Berbohm Tree, First Westerns, Cinderella Period: Jan 1, 1902 to Dec 31, 1902 La voyage dans la Lune Dec 1, 1903 The Great Train Robbery Aug 6, 1906 Humorous Phases of Funny Faces Period: Jan 1, 1908 to Dec 31, 1908 L'Assassinat du duc de Guise Period: Dec 1, 1908 to Dec 31, 1908 Motion Picture Patents Company Period: Jan 1, 1910 to Dec 31, 1910 First Frankenstain Film Period: Jan 1, 1911 to Dec 31, 1911 Nestor Films opened first film studio in Hollywood. Period: Jan 1, 1913 to Dec 31, 1913 First films with Charlie Chaplin Aug 22, 1913 Student from Prague (Der Student von Prag) - first German horror Period: Sep 1, 1913 to Dec 31, 1913 First Quo Vadis film directed by Enrico Guazzoni Period: Jan 1, 1914 to Dec 31, 1914 Cabiria- classic silent film Nov 14, 1914 Tillie's Punctured Romance Feb 8, 1915 The Birth of Nation - silent film directed by D.W.Griffith Period: Jan 1, 1916 to Dec 31, 1916 Intolerance (D.W.Griffith) Period: Jan 1, 1917 to Dec 31, 1917 Technicolor introduction Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Dec 31, 1918 My Four Years In Germany-first Warner Bros film. Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Dec 31, 1918 First film about Tarzan Period: Jan 1, 1919 to Dec 31, 1919 United Artists is beginning its activity Period: Jan 1, 1919 to Dec 31, 1919 Broken Blossoms (directed by D.Griffith) Period: Jan 1, 1919 to Dec 31, 1919 Madame Dubarry-costume dramat