History of film

  • Dec 12, 627

    Battle of Nineveh

    The Byzantine victory later resulted in civil war in Persia and for a period of time restored the empire to its ancient boundaries in the Middle East.
  • Abraham Lincoln

    -16th President
    -assination April 1865
  • Lumiere Brothers

    -Cinematographe
  • Kinetoscope Parior

    -Created illusion of motion
    -Series of still images
  • Peephole Kinetoscope

    -Thomas Edison inventeded
    -One person could see it at a time
  • Short Dramtic Skits

    -Nickelodeons inventeded
    -Comedy routies
    -Songs
    -Dance numbers
    -Raudeville
  • Monopoly

    -Thomas Edison
    -MPPC
  • Great Train Robbery

    -First Narrative Film
  • Nickelodeon Theaters

    -26 million viewsr per week
  • Charlie Chaplin

    -America's Sweetheart
  • 9/11

    -terrorists hijacked four U.S. airliners and carried out deadly attacks
    -Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.