By: Stephanie Benson

 Hanibal W. Goodwin invents film. George Eastman buys the invention and begins mass producing it.

 Thomas Edison Introduces The Kinetograph, The First True Motion Picture Camera.

 Edison Unveils Kinetoscope, A Device That Allows One Person At A Time To View Motion Pictures.

 Auguste And Louis Lumiere Give The First Public Showing Of The Cinematographe, A Device That Projects Motion Pictures On A Screen.

 Edwin S. Porter Produces The Great Train Robbery, The First Native Film.

 First Nickelodeon Opens In Pittsburgh, PA.

 Technicolor is introduced

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

 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.

 Motion pictures were at their peak during this time.

 Motion picture industry was monopolized by film studios.

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

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

 To counteract the threat of television, Hollywood thinks big and develops wide-screen processes such as Cinemascope, first seen in The Robe.

 On the Waterfront nearly sweeps the 1954 Academy Awards, winning Best Picture, Best Actor Marlon Brando, Best Supporting Actress Eva Maria Saint, and Best Director Elia Kazan. 70mm film is introduced with Oklahoma. James Dean dies in a car accident at age 26.