1897 — Thomas Edison patents his movie camera, called the Kinetograph
1911 — Hollywood’s first film studio, Nestor Film Company, opens
1914 — The Squaw Man, Hollywood’s first feature-length film, is released
1915 — D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation is released
1927 — Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents the first electronic television
— The first talkie, The Jazz Singer, opens
1928 — Disney’s Steamboat Willie, introducing Mickey Mouse, is released
1929 — Wings wins the first Academy Award for best picture
1942 — Casablanca opens
1951 — I Love Lucy debuts on television
1960 — First Hollywood Walk of Fame star appears on Hollywood Boulevard
1964 — Sidney Poitier wins the Academy Award for best actor, the first African American man ever to win
1975 — Jaws opens
1977 — Star Wars opens
2010 — Kathryn Bigelow wins the Academy Award for best director, the first woman ever to do so
2017 — Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight wins the Academy Award for best picture