The history and evolution of film

Film was initially described as being a blend of "vaudeville, music-hall, theatre, photography" and novels, and is now recogised as an art form in its own right. The humble beginnings of film can be traced back to the 19th century when it was a visual form of storytelling solely dependent on the acting prowess of the actors, with no colour, no sound and the only editing done consisted of physically cutting and attaching strips of film together. From the start when films were merely pictures in motion, they have existed as various different types from the Silent Era of the 1920s of films in black and white which began with the invention of the Cinématographe in 1895 by the Lumière Brothers to the “Talkies”, feature films with sound, to Technicolour films in 1932, and inspired many a film movement like film noir, the French New Wave etc, which we can accredit the vast array and choice of films of numerous genres we have today to. The experience of watching films in the cinema began in the 1950s and has evolved to become the quintessential form of cinema going we enjoy today. And over the last two decades, modern technology, like digital cameras, advanced editing software, has catapulted film to its foothold as a global billion dollar industry.
Information gathered from the following sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film#Early_period
https://www.sothetheorygoes.com/the-evolution-of-cinema/