The Kid meets The Jazz Singer and It's a Wonderful Life as they have Breakfast at Tiffany's before The Empire Strikes Back and Harry Potter casts a cinematic spell. From the birth of film in the 1890s to today's technical wizardry, this year-by-yearguide to the films, the stars, the Oscars and the innovations, with over 3,000 illustrations, brings the silver screen to life and provides the most detailed visual history of cinema ever published.