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Motion picture
Thomas Edison invented the modern motionpicture system. -
Animation in movies
The first use of animation in movies was in 1899 with the production of the short film Matches: An Appeal -a thirty-second long stop-motion animated piece intended to encourage the audience to send matches to British troops fighting the Boer War. -
The Nickelodeon
The first successful permanent movie theatre "The Nickelodeon" was opened in Pittsburgh. Some 450 people attend the opening day of the world’s first nickelodeon. The storefront theater boasted 96 seats and charged each patron five cents. Nickelodeons (named for a combination of the admission cost and the Greek word for “theater”) soon spread across the country. -
Silent films
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. From the very beginnings of film production, the art of motion pictures grew into full maturity in the "silent era" (1894–1929). The Little Tramp, was British actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film. -
The first cartoon of Walt Disney
The "Alice Comedies" are a series of animated cartoons created by Walt Disney in the 1920s, in which a live action little girl named Alice and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an animated landscape. -
Sound films
The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid- to late 1920s. At first, the sound films incorporating synchronized dialogue—known as "talking pictures", or "talkies"—were exclusively shorts; The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927. -
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is the most profitable and one of the longest films of all time. -
Color films
The question when the first color movie came out is a little more obscure. The most well-known movies to use color were "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind", both from 1939. -
