Stop...and Go.

Short movies were filmed in one long strip of film, no shoot, stop, then go again. It didn't happen until 1898, where an older couple was shown outside an art gallery, and the shot skips, then they are shown inside looking at the art. It is the first time that the film is stopped in it's tracks, then restarted in a new spot.

The art is perfected in 1900, when the stop-motion technology is used to show a man looking through a telescope, and in the next shot the view through the telescope is shown. This technology leads to the remarkable new idea of ''Reverse-angle'' film cut. It takes a shot, filming action usually, then turns around and shows the continuation of that action from another angle.

The first ever film to employ reverse-angle shooting is ''Attack on a China Mission Station''; It shows an attack on a man, from two separate angles! From there, films became longer, having solidified the basics of sound, filming and stop-motion technology. In 1902, George Méliès developed ''le voyage dans la lune'' (A trip to the moon) in which he used multiple shots to make the movie longer.

 ''In 1907 there were about 4,000 small “nickelodeon” cinemas in the United States'' (www.wikepedia.org) which was essentially the modernisation of the industry, gently evolving into the cinemas we know today. These ''nickelodeon'' cinemas used much smaller projection rooms, about the size of an elementary school classroom, and housed about 20 people. Larger cinemas started becoming more common, housing about 50-60 people at a time.

Throughout the 1910's, coming over into the 20's, movies became longer, and became more large-scale to produce... and the cinema has now officially come into the modern times.