semproject - Timeline

louis le prince made the first moving pictures in britian in 1888

the lumiere brothers were the first to present a projected movie to a playing audience in a cafe in paris

the first movies with sound "the jazz singer" opened in the united states

mickey mouse arrived

Disneyland opened in anaheim, california

More than 25,000 people came to gimbels department store in philadelphia to watch the first demonstration of tv

NBC and the gillette company staged the first televised sports spectacular a heavy weight boxing match between joe louis and billy conn

the nine tv stations of 1945 grew to 98 stations by 1949

82 percent of all television sets in the united states were tuned to "ed sullivan show"

more than 60 percent of all u.s. viewers watched the television debut of the beatles on "the ed sullivan show"