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First photograph was taken, using a glass plate technique Claude Niepce's photograph the View from a Window at Le Gras took nearly eight hours to expose.
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Joseph Plateau and sons introduce the Phenakistoscope.
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Lumière brothers, French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinématographe
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Eadweard Muybridge achieves success after five years of trying to capture movement. Muybridge was asked, in 1873, by the ex-governor of California - Leland Stanford to settle a bet as to whether horses hooves left the ground when they galloped.
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Thomas Edison build the first motion picti=ure called the black maria.
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The first film shot with the Cinématographe camera is La Sortie de l'usine Lumière a Lyon
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The first movie was about a comic science fiction story of a group of scientists traveling to the moon in a space capsule and escaping after being taken prisoner by a race of Moon creatures.
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Back them it took 5 cents to get into a movie theatre
