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Thomas Eddison invented the phonograph which played music and sounds. -
Eadweard Muybridge took photos of a horse in motion and put it on a wheel and spun the wheel really quickly to get the affect of a horse in motion -
Etienne Jules Marey made a camera that looked like a rife but shot a lot of photos in quick secession. He wanted to see how birds and bug moved. -
The Roundhay garden scene was the first video in history and was made by Louis Le Prince
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Louis Le Prince made the first video camera -
Edison Hired the Dickson brothers to make a device that would play a video to work with the phonograph and made the motion picture camera. -
The Lumiere brothers made this device and it was like our now a day projector. they used the idea from Edisons device and made it better since there was no international patent. -
Many people in other countries were making new cameras like china, the uk, and England, but there were others too.
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The theatrograph (later called the animatograph) was Britains first projector and was made by Robert W. Paul
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The Vitascope is a projector made by Edison and established a format for all movies moving forward. -
He was a magician that became interested in the illusionist possibilities with the cinamotopraphe but got denied one and got an animatograph instead and changed it to make his own camera. -
People who made movies would sell them to exibitors or people who would show them to a wider audience. The movies would come with a projector for easy use.
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This was a time where America was going to war and didn't make many to none improvements in film.
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In this era they started working on syncing sounds with the movies.
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The technicolor was the first and best working camera that made colored movies.