VIDEO TIMELINEBy: Stephanie Benson

1887 Hanibal W. Goodwin invents film. George

Eastman buys the invention and begins mass producing it.

1889 Thomas Edison Introduces The

Kinetograph, The First True Motion Picture Camera.

1894 Edison Unveils Kinetoscope, A Device

That Allows One Person At A Time To View Motion Pictures.

1895 Auguste And Louis Lumiere Give The

First Public Showing Of The Cinematographe, A Device That Projects Motion Pictures On A Screen.

1903 Edwin S. Porter Produces The Great

Train Robbery, The First Native Film.

1905 First Nickelodeon Opens In Pittsburgh,

PA.

1917 Technicolor is introduced

1922 Radio is invented and preferred over

silent films by public. Film industry begins to decline.

1927 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.

1930-40 Motion pictures were at their peak

during this time.

1946 Motion picture industry was

monopolized by film studios.

1948 United States Supreme Court ruled that

studios could not own theaters because it gave the studios exclusive control over making and selling movies.

1950 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.

1953 To counteract the threat of television,

Hollywood thinks big and develops wide-screen processes such as Cinemascope, first seen in The Robe.

1955 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.