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The use of the Magic Lantern dates back to the 17th century.
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The first still photograph was rtaken using the glass plate technique.
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Eadweard Muybridge captures movement through a sequance of still photos.
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Using his projecting Praxinoscope, Reynaud holds the first public exhibitions of motion pictures. Reynaud's device was successful, using long strips of hand-painted frames, but the effect was jerky and slow.
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Louis and Auguste design a camera which serves as both a recording device and a projecting device. They call it the Cinématographe.The camera shot films at sixteen frames per second (rather than the forty six which Edison used), this became the standard film rate for nearly 25 years.
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The first film shot with the Cinématographe camera is La Sortie de l'usine Lumière a Lyon (Workers leaving the Lumière factory at Lyon). Shot in March it is shown in public at a meeting of the Societe d'Encouragement a l'industrie Nationale in Paris.
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One of the most famous film screenings in history took place at the Grand Cafe in Paris and customers paid one Franc for a twenty-five minute programme of ten Lumière films. These included Feeding the Baby, The Waterer Watered and A View of the Sea.
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Birt Acres presented a selection of his films to the Royal Photographic Society - these included the famous Rough Sea at Dover and soon projected films were shown there regularly.
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By 1897 the American Mutoscope Company become the most popular film company in America - both projecting films and with the peephole Mutoscope.
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Georges Méliès produces his magnificent "Voyage to the Moon", a fifteen minute epic fantasy parodying the writings of Jules Verne and HG Wells. The film used innovative special effect techniques and introduced colour to the screen through hand-painting and tinting.
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Chicago's White Front Theater opened - the nickelodeon was future Universal Studios' head Carl Laemmle's first business venture into the film industry. Due to the theatre's instant success, quickly becoming the most popular in the city, Laemmle also opened up a second theatre called "The Family Theatre".
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on this date universal studios Was founded by Carl Laemmle's And is now 104 Years old.
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the first 3d movie was shown in the Ambassador Hotel Theater in Los Angeles with the movie "The Power Of Love"
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The first-ever drive-in movie theater, located on Crescent Boulevard in Camden, New Jersey open on june 6 1933, Giving way to a whole new movie watching experiance.
