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The begininning of film hisory began in 1890s.
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The films of the 1890s were seen mostly via temporary storefront spaces and traveling exhibitors or as acts in vaudeville programs. A film could be under a minute long and could only show one scene.
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When movies became 'films'
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The first animated cartoon was preduced
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Lee DeForrest demonstrates a method for recording sound on the edge of a film strip
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In 1927 motion pictures for films were produced without sound. They called this time the silent era.
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Illustrated songs were a notable exception to this trend that began in 1894 in vaudeville houses and persisted as late as the late 1930s in film theaters
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Theaters begin to open refreshment stands.
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RCA begins experimental television broadcasts from the Empire State Building
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Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen form the film studio DreamWorks.
