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motion pictures cameras were invented, and film production companies started being stablished.
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The first rotating camera for taking panning shots was created
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the films started lasting more than just one minute.
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The first use of animation in movies
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Special effects were introduced and film continuity, involving action moving from one sequence into another, began to be used.
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The first successful permanent theatre showing only films was "The Nickelodeon" in Pittsburgh
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Regular newsreels were exhibited and soon became a popular way for finding out the news.
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actors began to receive screen credit for their roles, and the way to the creation of film stars was opened.
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New film techniques were introduced in this period including the use of artificial lighting, fire effects and low-key lighting for enhanced atmosphere during sinister scenes.
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As films grew longer, specialist writers were employed to simplify more complex stories derived from novels or plays into a form that could be contained on one reel and be easier to be understood by the audience
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the exhibition of films changed from short one-reel programs to feature films. Exhibition venues became larger and began charging higher prices.
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Genres began to be used as categories; the main division was into comedy and drama, but these categories were further subdivided.
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continuity cinema was the established mode of commercial cinema. One of the advanced continuity techniques involved an accurate and smooth transition from one shot to another.
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the United States reached what is still its era of greatest-ever output, producing an average of 800 feature films annually or 82% of the global total.
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motion pictures started being produced with sound.
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the first synchronized dialogue and singing in a feature film
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Hollywood was almost all-talkie, with several competing sound systems. Sound saved the Hollywood studio system in the face of the Great Depression.
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proliferation of films as both patriotism and propaganda.
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During the immediate post-war years the cinematic industry was also threatened by television, and the increasing popularity of the medium meant that some film theatres would bankrupt and close.
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'Golden Age' for non-English world cinema
