Motion picture

film

1887

film created by Eadweard Muybridge

kinetoscope

1894

Edison unveils Kinetoscope, a device that allows one person at a time to view motion pictures.

Auguste and Louis

1895

Auguste and Louis Lumiere give the first public showing of the Cinematographe, a device that projects motion pictures on a screen.

Edwin S

1903

Edwin S. Porter produces The Great Train Robbery, the first narrative film.

nickelodeon

1905

First nickelodeon opens in Pittsburgh, PA.

Technicolor

1917

Technicolor is introduced.

Radio

1922

Radio is invented and preferred over silent films by public. Film industry begins to decline.

Warner Brothers

1927

Warner Brothers produce full-length singing and talking film called The Jazz Singer with popular singer and stage actor during this time named Al Jolson. The audience loved it!

motion pictures became weak

1930

Motion pictures were at their peak during this time.

monopolized by film studios

1946

Motion picture industry was monopolized by film studios.

United States Supreme Court ruled that studios could not own theaters

1948

United States Supreme Court ruled that studios could not own theaters because it gave the studios exclusive control over making and selling movies.

color

1950

Television overtakes movies in popularity; color replaces black and white movies in theaters; theaters then attempt to win audiences back with 3-D pictures and replacing black and white movies with color.