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Series of six cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, showing a sequential series of six to twelve " automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse.
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Small theaters that showed short skit, comedy routines, and song and dance numbers. Vaudeville theaters became nickelodeons.
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Early motion picture exhibition invented by Thomas Edison and William Dickson, designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole.
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Created the cinematographe, a projector that would show motion pictures on a screen to an audience.
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Edison and several other companies formed a trust known as the Motion Picture Patent Company, the plan was to own everything, the leading film distributor and the bigger supplier of raw film stock.
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Nickelodeons were averaging around 26 million viewers a week. The potential was there for making money, creating a monopoly.
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Film industries decided to runaway to escape the control of MPPC, moviemakers began to arrive to Los Angeles to make their films. The MPPC had so much power they could take /away the equipment.
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The Jazz Singer was the very first film with sound which is called a talkie, a film with sound.
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The first narrative film, produced by Edwin S. Porter. New techniques in film editing also helped establish The Great Train Robbery as a pioneer in plot-based film
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The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind were the ver first movies made with color. they used technicolor, with they film with multiple shared over the lens to combined them to form all the colors.
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Jaws was the first successful blockbuster film. Big tentpole films were shown to box office, other box office hits were, Star Wars, Alien, etc.
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In the 80s/90s CGI began to incorporated into films. Movies like Jurassic Park and Avatar were the first few movies that had CGI incorporated into the films.
