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1890
thomas edison assistant begins devoting to making the motion picture project -
first camera
thomas made a peephole device a.k.a a camera he called it a kinetograph. -
construction of the camera
Edison 's use of 1 1 / 2 - inch film in his vertical-feed motion picture camera establishes the basis for today's standard 35mm commercial film. -
1900 film making
The actualities, the news events, and the worn-out dramatic and comic situations that have become the standard fare of film exhibitions, begin to bore audiences. Attendance at the showing of motion pictures begins to fall. -
picters coaperation
The theater chain, Loew's Incorporated, takes over Metro Pictures Corporation. -
new motion
Bringing together the Radio Corporation of American, the Keith Orpheum theater chain, and American Pathè, a new motion picture company is founded. -
warner bros. & paramount
Warner Bros., and Paramount are summoned to appear before a grand jury on charges of monopolistic . -
film festival
an International Film Festival is held for the first time at the French town of Cannes. -
no!no! not this
The Motion Picture Association of America has repealed its 1957 ruling that forbids persons sympathetic to Communism, or those who refused to give evidence to the House Un–American Activities Committee, from being nominated for an Academy Award. -
Finally
The Screen Writers Guild has called for a strike. It is demanding that its members receive a percentage of the television rights for films. -
4D
4D came to theaters in 2004 and you feel like if you were in the actual movie
