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The French artist Émile Cohl created the first animated film using what came to be known as traditional animation method
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John Wesley Hyatt was an American inventor. He is mainly known for simplifying the production of celluloid, the first industrial plastic.
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France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its significant contributions to the art form and the film-making process itself.
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Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, and it quickly became the most popular entertainment device of the century.
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The zoopraxiscope projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion.
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The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Dickson that was the first film ever created with sound
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The 1935 film “Becky Sharp” is generally regarded as the first “color movie” meaning the first to use the technology of three color Technicolor.
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Edison and Dickson invented a motion picture camera and a peephole viewing device called the Kinetoscope
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The contraption worked by taking live images from cameras and converting them into electrical impulses stored on magnetic tape.
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Oscar Rejlander created the world's first "special effects" image by combining different sections of 32 negatives into a single image, making a montaged combination print.
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The FCC declared new standards for video resolution that included "high-definition" 1080 and 720 line video made possible by digital video.
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Attack of the Clones began principal photography shot entirely using a Sony HDW-F900 camera as Lucas had previously stated.
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The first Gopro came out in 2004 by a Australian entrepreneur by Nick Woodmen
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The first commercially available 4K camera for cinematographic purposes was the Dalsa Origin
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360-degree video is typically recorded using either a special rig of multiple cameras, or using a dedicated camera that contains multiple camera lenses embedded into the device, and filming overlapping angles simultaneously