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The Horse In Motion was accomplished by using multiple cameras and assembling the picture into a single motion picture. The movie was made to answer question: Are all four of a horse's hooves off the ground at the same time? it proved that they were.
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Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge to discuss adding sound to moving pictures. Edison begins his own experiments
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Thomas Edison invented a motion picture camera and peephole viewing device called the Kinetoscope. this device only allows one person to view the picture.
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Lumiere brothers in france created the cinematographe. it was a projector that could show motion pictures on a screen for an audience.
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The Great Train Robbery, made by Edwin Porter, presented a real storyline and crosscutting between diffrent narrative and camera positions. this film had 14 scenes and lasted 12 minutes.
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Nickelodeon was the first indoor exhibition space dedicated to show motion pictures that used piano music and sound effects.admission charged five cents.
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Fantasmagorie is the first animated cartoon ever. It was created by Emile Cohl.
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Technicolor was founded by Herbert Kalmus. it showed the two colour subtractive process.It used two negatives capturing red and green lights placed back to back.
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"Wait a minute, wait a minute you aint heard nothin yet," were the first words spoken in a movie. In the Warner Bros's The Jazz Singer
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The first academy awards cermony honered films and actors of 1927 and 1928 at a private dinner.Best actor was Emil Jannings, best actress was Janet Gaynor, and best film was Wings.
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Eastman Kodak introduced the integral tripack.Also known as the Kodachrome. It consist of three emulsions.
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The success of the first full length animated feature snow white in 1937, allowed disney to create more animated features like pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi.
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the very first comic book to cross over to the film world was Adventures of Captain Marvel. It was based on Captain Marvel, created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck in ‘Whiz Comics’ #2 (1939).
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Ben-Hur wins 11 oscars. This is the record for the most oscars ever won by one film. This has been tied by the titanic and lord of the rings, but never broken.
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Joanne Woodward is the first star to be dedicated on the historic walkway. She is an Academy Award winner for The Three Faces of Eve (1957).
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In the early days of television, black actors were often cast in stereotypical roles. In the 1970s popular sitcoms appeared, inluding Good Times, Sanford and Sons, and The Jeffersons. they criticized the image of segregation.
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In the 1980s, John Hughes created a sub-genre of youth-oriented teen comedies starring teenage characters. It started with the movie National Lampoon's Vacation and includes other movies like Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, The Breakfast club.
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Boyz N The Hood started the new black wave. The black wave tackled serious topics that crossed racial lines and appealed to mainstream audiences.
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CGI films became more popular with the release of Shrek and other films such as Finding Nemo , The incredibles, Monsters inc, and Ratatouille.
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This year was the biggest box office year ever for horror. Movies such as Get Out, It, Happy Death Day, and Jigsaw.