The document provides a brief history of the development of films from the late 19th century through the early 20th century. It describes key early inventions and innovators that advanced film technology and the art of moviemaking, including the zoopraxiscope, chronophotography, early cameras, the kinetoscope, the cinematograph, and some of the first publicly screened films including Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory and A Trip to the Moon. The development of film in these early decades was driven by inventors and technological advances rather than by artists.