1860s

2D drawings in motion were demonstrated with devices such as the zoetrope, mutoscope and praxinoscope
Displaying sequences of still pictures at sufficient speed for the images on the pictures to appear to be moving, a phenomenon called persistence of vision. Basis for the development of film animation

1870s

Objects in motion in real time were captured with the development of celluloid film An 1878 experiment by English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (United States) used 24 cameras to produce a series of stereoscopic images of a galloping horse arguably the first "motion picture" A person had to look into a viewing machine to see the pictures which were separate paper prints attached to a drum turned by a handcrank.

1880s

Individual component images were captured and stored on a single reel using motion picture camera. Motion picture projector to shine light through the processed and printed film and magnify these "moving picture shows" onto a screen for an entire audience.

1890s

The first public exhibition of projected motion pictures in America was shown at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York City on the 23rd of April 1896. Ignoring W. K. L. Dickson's early sound experiments (1894), commercial motion pictures were purely visual art through the late 19th century

1900s

Around the turn of the 20th century, films began developing a narrative structure by stringing scenes together to tell narratives. Theater owners would hired a pianist or organist or a full orchestra to play music that would cover noises of projector.

1910s

The rise of European cinema was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I when the film industry in United States flourished with the rise of Hollywood, typified most prominently by the great innovative work of D. W. Griffith in The Birth of a Nation (1914) and Intolerance (1916)

1920s

European filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang, along with the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, quickly caught up with American film-making and continued to further advance the medium Most films came with a prepared list of sheet music, with complete film scores being composed for major productions. These sound films were initially distinguished by calling them "talking pictures", or talkies.

1930s

The next major step in the development of cinema was the introduction of so-called "natural color" The pivotal innovation was the introduction of the three-strip version of the Technicolor process, which was first used for short subjects and for isolated sequences in a few feature films released in 1934, then for an entire feature film, Becky Sharp, in 1935

1950s

In the early 1950s, as the proliferation of black-and-white television started seriously depressing theater attendance in the US, the use of color was seen as one way of winning back audiences. Color television receivers had been available in the US since the mid-1950s

1960s

After the final flurry of black-and-white film releases in mid-1960s, all major Hollywood studio film production was exclusively in color, with rare exceptions reluctantly made only at the insistence of "star" directors such as Peter Bogdanovich and Martin Scorsese

1970s - Till date

Since the decline of the studio system in the 1960s, the succeeding decades saw changes in the production and style of film Various New Wave movements (French New Wave, Indian New Wave, Japanese New Wave and New Hollywood) and the rise of film school educated independent filmmakers were experienced in the latter half of the 20th century Digital technology has been the driving force in change throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s. 3D technology increased in usage and has become more popular since the early 2010s

Significant Films of 2011

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film
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