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Beggining to present
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It started With a Bet
There wasn't any video cameras back than but it all started with a man named edward midrage. While edward and some of his firends were watching horses run edward came a cross a bet, "i bet that when horses run all four of their hoovs are off the ground when they are at full speed" After he won they looked back at all the pictures they took and when they flipped through them it looked like an illusion that made the horse look like it was moving. -
peephole
Thomas Edison created a projector. Also known as the Peephole Kinectoscope. But shortly after making it, decieded to keep it to himself, thinking he'd make more money by making the people still pay for one per person. -
Vaudeville
Around this time, small theaters called Vaudervillie's became quite popular. They showed short shows, Comdy, Drama, Etc.To take up time between each act. They showed short films. -
Charlie Chapman
He was a major actor in the silent film era. He starred in "The Kid" which was his first film to excced an hour. HE was also a film producer. He was also a comic genious. -
1st motion picture videos
film began in the 1890s, with the invention of the first motion-picture cameras and the establishment of the first film production companies and cinemas. The films of the 1890s were under a minute long and until 1927 -
Mary Pickford
she was known as "America's sweetheart". She was the cofounder of some films. People would pay lots of oney just to see her in theatres. -
Short films
It was created by the Lumiere Brothers and you'd pay money to see a 30-60 second long "movie". they'd charge 1 franc. Which is 1 dollar in the U.S. The first one that was ever made was of just a train. -
first panning video recorders
The films became several minutes longer consisting of several shots. The first rotating camera for taking panning shots was built in 1897. -
The great Train Robbery
The first actual film to last more than 30 seconds is called "The Great Train Robbery". It was 12 minutes long, with 18 frames, and was the first film to show a whole story. It was also a narrarated movie. -
first animated cartoon
Georges Méliès was the first person to create a animated film -
films with sound
in 1927 motion pictures were produced without sound. The first eleven years of motion pictures show the cinema moving from a novelty to an established large-scale entertainment industry -
VHS
1951 Charles Ginburg created the first video tape recorder to capture live images from television cameras by converting the camera's electrical impulses and saving the information onto magnetic video tape.
