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first motion-picture camera named the Kinetograph was built by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson.
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The Great Train Robbery was the first Western movie made in 1903. It was a total of twelve minutes long.
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Harry Davis and John Harris opened their first movie theater, dubbing it a nickelodeon, in Pittsburgh.
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The first real horror film, William Selig's 16-minute "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" premiered in Chicago.
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Winsor McCay unleashes Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated cartoon.
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The Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation was founded by Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Comstock, and Burton Westcott to develop a more advanced system to colorize motion pictures. The company's first color process was a two color (red and green) additive system that used two color negatives pasted or printed together.
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Walt Disney creates his first cartoon, "Alice's Wonderland."
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The first ever drive in movie theater was actually located in Camden, New Jersey. They were originally called park in theaters. Reportedly inspired by his mother's struggle to sit comfortably in traditional movie theater seats, Hollingshead came up with the idea of an open-air theater where patrons watched movies in the comfort of their own automobiles. He then experimented in the driveway of his own house with different projection and sound techniques, using a projecter on his car hood.
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Walt Disney's animated feature film "Cinderella" the studio's 12th animated 'classic', was in limited release in New York on February 22, 1950, and in wide-release on March 4, 1950.
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Mary Poppins was one of the biggest money makers of the 1960's, produced in 1964.
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In the mid 1970's, there were legal adult cinemas which showed pornographic films, This was a very popular cultural phenomenon. This later died out in 1980 when VCRs were made.
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The sale and rental of movies on home video became a significant "second venue" for exhibition of films, and an additional source of revenue for the movie companies. People started watching movies on VCR because it was available at home.
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IMAX went public in 1994, which was around the same time the company began to see the growth potential in Hollywood content. They opened the first few theatres in multiplexes across North America (including the first in New York City’s Lincoln Square),
