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No one person invented cinema. However, in 1891 the Edison Company successfully demonstrated a prototype of the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. -
The first time the Kinetoscope was seen in public was in 1893. -
In 1894 there were Kinetoscopes that were viewed around the world. -
The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in Paris, France. They used a device of their own making, the Cinematographer, which was a camera, a projector and a film printer all in one. -
By 1914, several national film industries were established. At this time, Europe, Russia and Scandinavia were the dominant industries. Films became longer and storytelling, or narrative. -
In the 1930's the cinema business was thriving with high demand. -
In 1932 filming industries added a color scheme of three to movies. -
In Britain, the highest attendance occurred in 1946, with over 31 million visits to the cinema each week. -
In 1952, the Cinerama process, using three projectors and a wide, deeply curved screen together with multi-track surround sound, was premiered. -
In the next 30 years audiences dwindled. By 1984 cinema attendances in Britain had declined to one million a week. -
The filming industries made more sales by making more available movies and more adjustments to their equipment.