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Cinemas were first built in the 1890s.
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-One of Thomas Edison’s helpers,W.K.L. Dickson, starts a “motion picture project”. He developed a horizontal-feed motion picture camera with the help of his staff.
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From 1900-1926 movies were made with out sound and this was known as the silent Movie Era.
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Thomas L. Tally's Electric Theater was the first permanent movie theater in Los Angeles and the U.S.
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In 1922 84% of films produced were in studios located in or near Hollywood .
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Sound was establised in motion pictures in 1927.
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Movie attendance drop a lot because of the "Depression"
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There were 17,500 movie theaters in operation for every 8,00 people in the United States.
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For the first time The Academy Award ceremony is broadcasted on TV .
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Members started demanding to have a percentage of the television rights for films.
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By the 1970s different film varieties were introduced movies started to be influenced by music, literature, crime and war.
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By 1984 PG-13 was introduced in the US.
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In the 21st Century thousands of films were filemd in the first decade.
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Movies are now rated G , PG13 , or R. Movies are made from different topics and are based on books.Movies are in color and sound.