When discussing cinema many forget British cinema. Modern cinema is generally regarded as descending from the French Lumière Brothers in 1892, and their show first came to London in 1896. However, the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890.
George Albert Smith devised the first color system, Kinemacolor, in 1908.
Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929) is regarded as the first British sound production.
WWII - During the war some of the greats came out of this era; David Lean's Brief Encounter.
Post-war - After the war ended big budget films started appearing; Michael Powell's The Red Shoes, David Lean's Oliver Twist.
British New Wave (Free Cinema) - A gritty underground movement included Tony Richardson's Look Back in Anger and John Schlesinger's A Kind of Loving.
