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A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

Timeline of Events

1889

10.6.1889

Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.

1893

2.1.1893

Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

1894

1.7.1894

W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.

4.14.1894

The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.

1895

3.22.1895

First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière.

7.11.1895

The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.

1922

11.26.1922

''Toll of the Sea'' debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (''The Gulf Between'' was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).

1926

7.23.1926

Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.

1930

3.31.1930

The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.