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Eastman Kodak first made celluloid film commercially available.
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The first public exhibition of projected motion pictures in America was at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York City.
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By the early 1920s, theater owners would hire pianists, organists, or even full orchestras to play the accompanying music for the movies. Most movies at this point came with there own sheet music.
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By the 1930s silent movies were virtually extinct due to the invention of sound recording techniques that allowed talking in films.
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Color in film was a more gradual process than music because of the expense. The first use of what people call Technicolor was in 1932 for cartoons.
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Movies stayed mostly black and white until the 1960s, when television started broadcasting in color. The public demand for color in films forced the movie industry to start exclusively using color in order to keep making money.
