The document provides a brief history of important developments in film through short summaries of influential movies and techniques: - The Lumière brothers produced some of the first films using a small portable camera and projector in the late 1800s, including one capturing workers leaving their factory which is considered one of the first documentary films. - Georges Méliès pioneered special effects and sci-fi films in the early 1900s through techniques like fade ins/outs and stop motion. Edwin Porter also directed The Great Train Robbery, one of the first narrative films to use cross-cutting between shots. - Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was a milestone as the first full-