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In "The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots," was the first time the substitution shot was used and was used for decapitating a head. A substituion shot is when the camera is stopped and the actors freeze while an object or actor is exchanged for another. In this movie they replaced the actress with a dummy.
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The Humpty Dumpty Circus was the first movie to use stop motion. Stop motion is a technique fo special effects, in which a small puppet is moved timely through a range of motions and photographed one frame at a time with each movement
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"The Eagle's Nest," was the first movie to us an animotronic creature. The stuffed eagle kidnaps a baby and battles the hero.
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The Power of Love, which was a silent film, was the first 3-D movie that was shown to an audience
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"The Jazz Singer was the first full-length movie with dialague and was a musical
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The King of Jazz (1930) was the first 2-strip Technicolor animation ever produced
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Bwana Devil was the first feature length 3-D movie and was released in the U.S. in 1952
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Ivan Sutherland invented Sketchpad, which is the first interactive computer graphics program fo designing and engineering applications.
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In Star wars space battles were used by motion control which is a camera controlled by a computer, that can be programmed to exactly duplicate the same movement over and over agina With it, multiple elements can be filmed in exactly the same way,
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In the move Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, The Genesis Effect illustrated technology able to make a dead planet and was the first all-digital computer generated image to appear in a film.
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In "Young Sherlock Holmes" it showed the first full computer genterated character which was a medival knight. The 30 second clip took 6 months to make.
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Jurassic Park was the first film to use computer generated animals such as the dinosaurs.
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Toy Story, which took over 4 years to make, was the first entirely computer gernerated image film. It requires 1,000 gigabytes of data and requires 800,000 machine hours of rendering.