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The Kinetoscope made it possible for the first motion picture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope) -
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First commercial motion-picture exhibition was given in New York City -
US politician Will H. Hays left politics and formed the movie studio boss organization known as the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA). -
The United States produced the world's first sync-sound musical film "The Jazz Singer" with May McAvoy and Warner Orlando. -
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At motion pictures' height of popularity in the mid-1940s, the studios were cranking out a total of about 400 movies a year, seen by an audience of 90 million Americans per week -
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To Have and Have Not (1944) is notable not only for the first pairing of actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, but because it was written by two future winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ernest Hemingway, the author of the novel on which the script was nominally based, and William Faulkner, who worked on the screen adaptation. -
The organization became the Motion Picture Association of America after Hays retired in 1945. -
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The major studios kept thousands of people on salary—actors, producers, directors, writers, stunt men, crafts persons, and technicians from the 1920s-1940s. -
The New Hollywood is the emergence of a new generation of film school-trained directors who had absorbed the techniques developed in Europe in the 1960s as a result of the French New Wave; the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde marked the beginning of American cinema rebounding as well, as a new generation of films would afterwards gain success at the box offices as well. -
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Film makers in the 1990s had access to technological, political and economic innovations that had not been available in previous decades. Dick Tracy (1990) became the first 35 mm feature film with a digital soundtrack. -
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