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First revealance of photography, by french astronomer, Pierre Janssen. -
French inventor who made an improvement of the zoetrope and renamed it Praxinoscope. It used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors.
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George Eastman invents an emulsion-coating machine which enables the mass-production of photographic dry plates.Perfected the Kodak black camera.
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American inventor George Eastman introduces film made on a paper base instead of glass, wound in a roll, eliminating the need for glass plates.
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The first public showings of films took place in the 1890s. The first theater was built in Philadelphia in 1899. Film companies began building film studios around 1900.
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In 1903, the Edison Corporation produced the first western, and established the use of shots and editing in film. This also marks the growing popularity of story films, over daily life scenes or news.
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The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh.
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The first animated cartoon is produced.
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Edison invented the Kinetophone, making talkies an option. They would not become popular for more than 20 years, however.
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Warner Bros. is established
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Walt Disney creates his first cartoon, "Alice's Wonderland."
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The Jazz Singer is the first feature-length talkie. The film starred Vaudeville sensation Al Jolson.
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Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie,
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The first drive-in movie theatre opens in New Jersey, USA.
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With the release of Becky Sharp, audiences could now see films in technicolor. Two-color film technology had been available, but rarely used since 1922
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With the invention of television, film needed to up its game. New widescreen processes to produce bigger and more exciting films were the answer.
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The first 3-D film, relying upon stereoscopic technology, achieved wide release in 1953. Earlier attempts had been made, but the 1950s saw the popularity of 3-d.
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Star Wars hits theaters—for the first time—and will go on to be the second highest-grossing film of all time.
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The X rating is replaced by NC-17 (no children under 17).
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Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen form the film studio DreamWorks.
