SEM Project - Timeline

Louis Le Prince made the first moving pictures in Britain.

Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California.

Mickey Mouse arrived in Walt Disney`s Steamboat.

The Jazz singer, opened in the U.S in 1927 in the few movie theaters that were equipped at that time to handle audio.

More than 25,000 people came to Gimbel`s Department Store in Philadelphia to watch.

The nine TV stations of 1945 grew to 98 stations by 1949

82 percent of all television sets in the U>S were tuned to The Ed Sullivan Show.

NBC and the Gillette Company staged the first televised sports spectecular.

The Lumiere brothers were the first to present a projected movie to a paying audience in a cafe in Paris in 1895.

More than 60 percent of all U.S viewers watched the television debut of the beatles on the ed sullivan show.