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A timeline of the history of film. (Void any September 8th date. This is just refering to the year.)
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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateay, a Belguim scientist, invents phenakistoscope. A spinning wheel that allows pictures to seem to move.
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William George Horner creates a drum filled with pictures that when spun was mad it look as though the image was moving.
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Emile Reynaud invents a device quite similar to the zeotrope, but it uses mirrors instead of slots.
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Etienne Jules Marey produces a camera which could take up to twelve picture a second.
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William Friese-Greene and John Rudge invent the Biophantascope. It was one of the first motion picture cameras and projector which projected slides in a quick sequence.
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Louis Augustin le Prince makes a single-lensed camera. He later used it to film the first moving picture to an audience.
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Thomas Edison and William K.L Dickson invent a one person contraption in which film is moved over light giving the appearance of a moving picture.
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The first hand colored tinted film was .Annabelle Butterfly Dance.
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Woodville films the first picture to be viewed by a paying audience, a boxing match between Albert Griffithes and Charels Barnett.
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The Lumiere family demonstrates the cinematographe, a camera and projector.
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Woodville Lantham intruduces is invention to the New York Press. A movie Projector witha a loop to guide film smoothly.
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Lumier brothers pubically reveals their Cinematographe. A small camera/ projector able to project film for a larger screen. This was credited as "the birth of film".
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Lean Gaumont invents the Chronophone, a sycronized video and sound system using an electronic connection.
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The cooper Hewitt lamps are introduced. They made indoor shooting possible without sunlight.
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Rescued by Rover was the first dog movies.
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J. Stuart Blackton created first animated film The humorous Phases of Funny Faces, which moved at twenty frames per second.
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Chicago passes a bill to stop "immoral or obscene pictures" from being shown. People showing movies had to have a permit after each movie was reviewed and police were able to ban films.
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The first movie stunt was a man jumping in to the Hudson out of a burning air ballon.
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Edison Motion Picture Studios releases the first Frankenstien movie based on Mary Shelley's novel. Unfortunately it wasn't very close to the plot line of the book.
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The German movie, Night and Ice, was one of the first disaster movie.
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The first gangster crime film was The Musketeers of Pig Alley.
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William Fox starts The Fox Film Foundatioin.
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The Bell & Howell 2709 was developed. It was the first camera to allow close-ups without moving the whole camera.
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The inventors of colored film development start the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation in Boston.
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Different From the Others (made in Germany) was the first movie to depict male homosexuality. The Nazi regime would not allow it to be played.
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John Randolph Bray mad the first colored cartoon, The Debut of Thomas Cat.
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The Power of Love was the first 3-D movie.
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In 1922, Walt Disney released his first cartoon for Laugh-Gram Studios, Little Red Riding Hood.
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F. W Murnau films and releases Nosferatu: a Symphony of Horror, one of the first vampire movies.
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William Hays wrote the Motion Picture Production code that elimnated swearing, sexual connotation, nudity, homosexuality, and other inmoral activities.
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Universal releases Dracula starring Bela Lugosi and Frankenstien staring Borris Carlof.
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Victor Halperin directs White Zombie, the first zombie movie.
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The famous monkey movie, King Kong, is released. It was the first movie to use stop-motion along with live action.
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Universal releases the first werewolf movie title Werewolf in London.
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Walt Disney makes the first full feature animation movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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Batman was the first film series from D.C Comics with fifteen episodes.
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The first movie advertisment on TV i was the Preston Sturge's The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
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Blood on the Sun was one of the first movie to feature martial arts.
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The first colored newsreel was of the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl done by Warner Brothers.
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Disney's Treasure Island became their first full live-action movie.
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Melody was the first 3-D cartoon made in technicolor.
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House of Wax, starring Vincent Price, a remake of the Mystery of the Wax Mueseum (1933), was one of the first 3-D movies in color.
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The 1933 King Kong was the first movie telivised.
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Rock Around the Clock was the first movie all about rock and roll.
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Behind the Great Wall was one of the first and only movies to be placed with scents released through the air conditioning.
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Veitnam was the first war to be televised back in the states.
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Who's Afraid of the Virginia Woolf was the first M rated movie with sexual inneudos and cursing to get the MPAA's Production Codes seal of approval.
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The highly succesful science fiction show Star Trek started up.
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HBO first television programs are broadcasted.
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The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Copala is released.
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The first x-rated cartoon, Fritz the Cat, was released.
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Bruce Lee stars in his breakout role in Fist of Fury.
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Live and Let DIe the first James Bond movie was released.
