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Timeline of major events in cinematic history.
Created by pegschreiner on Apr 29, 2010
Last updated: 06/02/10 at 08:28 PM
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Films contained more explicit material because there were less censorship laws.
End of the Classical Age of Film
Because of television, people didn't have much of a need for movies.
By the 1920s there were more than 800 feature films being made annually, 82% of the global total. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film#Film_history
The 1st World War lead to longer films of up to four reels or more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film#Film_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film#Film_history
This allowed people to become film stars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film#Film_history
By 1907 there were about 4,000 small theaters in the U.S.
There was a boom in film exhibition when they began to make several minute long films, and they began showing in nickelodeons.
This can be dated to Robert W. Paul's "Come Along, Do!"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film#Film_history_from_1895_to_1906
For the first several years of motion pictures, the industry was unable to find a way to synchronize sound to the video.
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