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Roundhay Garden Scene was the first movie ever made. It was 2.11 seconds and it was silent.And it was 10-12 frames a second.
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Roundhay Garden Scene was the first film ever made and it lasted almost 3 seconds. It was shot at 10-12 frames per second. -
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson made the first motion picture camera it is called the Kinetograph
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson made the first modern picture camera and named it Kinetograph. Then he made a trial film with it, "Monkeyshines No. 1". It is the first motion picture ever produced in the US -
Movies started to become popular in this time. The Brownie Camera was first introduced. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in film. -
New York Times coined the word stars used in film today. United States had like 9k movie theaters at this time. Acting in movies was seen as bad and acting plays was good at this time -
Film companies started to move to Hollywood in California. Subtitles began to appear regularly. The first movie stunt was a man jumping into the Hudson River from a burning balloon. -
The first color cartoon (it was 2 colors). It was the first animated short made in color using color film. Made by Bray's Picture Corporations. -
Most popular films were musicals, "gangster" films, newspaper movies, westerns, comedies, and melodramas. Motion Picture production code was a thing and it made it where you couldn't show bad thing like gangs and immoral activity. Pluto was introduced from Mickey Mouse -
Disney released Pinocchio. Disney also released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which IS a really big movie. Tom and Jerry debuted. -
An ACTOR, RONALD REGAN was somehow elected as president and that didn't go too good lol. SNL set a record for how many cars were at set (150). CNN was the first 24 hour news station. -
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Freddy v Jason, Spider Man films were being made based off comics. The Grinch. Mission Impossible made 215.4 million -
Movie industry made more than $11 billion in domestic box-office revenue.
Toy Story 3 won Best Animated Feature Film.
Warner Bros was the highest grossing film studio. -
Covid. A lot of movies stop going to movies and go to streaming platforms like Netflix. Companies like disney and HBO Max have their own streaming services they put their films on.