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Eadward Muybridge combines photographs of motion together, creating motion pictures. This allowed him to demonstrate how animals and people moved.
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Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson develop the kinetoscope, a peep show device in which film moved past a light. One woulld peep through the hole in order to watch the movie.
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The Lumière brothers in France created a projector that allowed motion pictures to be showed on a screen. This was called cinematographe.
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Thomas Edison's employee, Edwin Porter created the first film with narrative, The Great Train Robbery
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Nickelodeon theaters were attracting 26 million viewers every week, the number doubled in just 5 years. This made films more popular, and profitable.
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Western Electric and Warner Bros. agree to develop a system for movies with sound.
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The Motion Picture Industries adopts the Production Code, a set of guidelines that describes what is acceptable in movies.
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Movie studios start growing by the 1940's
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The success of Jaws and Star Wars in the 1970's is what lead to the modern blockbuster. Hollywood studios focused on producing a smaller number of large budget films with marketing campaigns.
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With the VCR being invented a decade earlier, many movies were being released on VHS allowing for home viewing of favorite movies.
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Special effects began being used in movies allowing for effects that can't be done in the real world to be done in movies.
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By 2010 movies can now be viewed anywhere, from theaters, to TVs, computers, phones, tablets, etc.
