2016 Timeline Cultural Impact

The Decade of Talkies: "Wait a minute, wait a minute! You ain't heard nothing yet!" The improvised line that forever changed movie history.

• 1890
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• 1910
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Hollywood boom town, World War 2, Sign contract to one studio at a time

• 1930
• 1940
• 1950
• 1960

The Age of Discovery: excitement about this new form of art/entertainment, Nickelodeons, first copyright of a movie, a scandalous movie brings up issue of censorship

• 1890
• 1900
• 1910
• 1920

Civil Rights, Hippie movement, rock and roll, free love! Restrictions on language, sex, violence loosened

• 1970
• 1980
• 1990
• 2000

MPAA Ratings (G, M, R, X), Drive-Ins, Gas $0.20 a gallon, Disneyland opened!

• 1930
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Huge jump in movie quality, Social Media, Internet Pirating, TV shows became equally as popular as movies, Video games

• 1970
• 1980
• 1990
• 2000

The Infancy of Film: First statewide movie censorship laws (Pennsylvania), the Edison Trust (trying to monopolize the movie industry) is dissolved, filming of Titanic departure, feature length films, first publicity stunt, first movie magazines.

• 1890
• 1900
• 1910
• 1920

First screenplay copyright, Hollywood became a city, Chicago became the first city to impose movie censorship laws, Edison sued (and won) over the copyright of one of "his" cameras.

• 1890
• 1900
• 1910
• 1920

The Golden Age of Movies: Hayes Code made OKs, MAYBEs and DON'Ts very clear, first gangster movie, first cuss word in movie, first woman killed on screen

• 1930
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Directors had more control over movies, Hippies!, Era of underground and independent films, anti-war movies, westerns, British invasion

• 1930
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• 1960