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John L. Baird patented the idea of using arrays of transmit images of TV (television).
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the Courts rule that a film doesn’t have to be copyrighted frame-by-frame, but rather that it could be covered by one copyright submission
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Chicago becomes a center for the motion picture exchanges that supply films for new Nickelodeons. Edison projectors sold for $135 each.
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Walt Disney created the first cartoon with synchronized sound.
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Jurassic Park used computer graphics to look like real-life.
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Lucas’ second Star Wars prequel: Attack of the Clones was the Hollywood motion picture to be filmed entirely with digital video.
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Hanibal W. Goodwin invents film. George Eastman buys the invention and begins mass producing it.
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Thomas Edison introduces the Kinetograph, the first true motion picture camera.
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Auguste and Louis Lumiere give the first public showing of the Cinematographe, a device that projects motion pictures on a screen.
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Edwin S. Porter produces The Great Train Robbery, the first narrative film.
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First nickelodeon opens in Pittsburgh, PA.
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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.
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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!