How the film industry has developed.

The history of film started in the 1890s, with the creation of the first
motion-picture cameras and the creation of the first film production
companies and cinemas.
The first rotating camera for taking panning shots was built in 1897
The first film studios were built in 1897
first use of animation in movies was in 1899
In 1900, continuity of action across successive shots was achieved
and the close-up shot was introduced.
The first feature length multi-reel film was a 1906 Australian
production.
By about 1910, actors began to receive screen credit for their roles,
and the way to the creation of film stars was opened.
In 1912 New film techniques that were introduced in this period
include the use of artificial lighting, fire effects and Low-key lighting.
During 1912 Genres began to be used as categories; the main
division was into comedy and drama, but these categories were
further subdivided.
In 1914 due to the war the exhibition of films changed from short
one-reel programmes to feature films.
By 1914, continuity cinema was the established mode of
commercial cinema.
By the 1920s, the United States reached what is still its era of
greatest-ever output, producing an average of 800 feature films
annually
Until 1927, motion pictures were produced without sound
During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, the first
synchronized dialogue (and singing) in a feature film.
By the end of 1929, Hollywood was almost all-talkie, with several
competing sound systems.
Thus began what is now often called "The Golden Age of
Hollywood", which refers roughly to the period beginning with the
introduction of sound until the late 1940s
During 1945 the desire for wartime propaganda created a
renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas
The 1950s, marked a 'Golden Age' for non-English world cinema.
During the 1960s, the studio system in Hollywood declined, because
many films were now being made on location in other countries, or
using studio facilities abroad.
During the 1970s, filmmakers increasingly depicted explicit sexual
content and showed gunfight and battle scenes that included
graphic images of bloody deaths.
During the 1980s, audiences began increasingly watching films on
their home VCRs.

In the early 1980s, the film studios tried legal action to ban home
ownership of VCRs as a violation of copyright, which proved
unsuccessful.
The LucasSpielberg combine would dominate "Hollywood" cinema
for much of the 1980s, and lead to much imitation.
The early 1990s saw the development of a commercially successful
independent cinema in the United States.
cinema was increasingly dominated by special-effects films such as
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Jurassic Park (1993)
and Titanic (1997)
Major American studios began to create their own "independent"
production companies to finance and produce non-mainstream fare
In 2001, the Harry Potter film series began, and by its end in 2011, it
had become the highest-grossing film franchise of all time.
More films were also being released simultaneously to IMAX cinema,
the first was in 2002's Disney animation Treasure Planet
The first live action was in 2003's The Matrix Revolutions and a rerelease of The Matrix Reloaded.
Later in the decade 2008, The Dark Knight was the first major
feature film to have been at least partially shot in IMAX technology.