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in the early 1830's moving images where created by moving drums and disks
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British inventor, William H made paper that was sensitive to light
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The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures . that you watched though a slit
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British photographer Edward Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion that shows how things moved
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American inventor George Eastman introduces film made on a paper base instead of glass, it eliminated the need for glass plates
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Eastman Kodak eliminates the need for amateur photographers to process their own pictures.
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Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson develop the Kinetoscope, a peep-show device in which film is moved past a light.
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The Edison company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures.
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World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago and receives patents for his movie camera
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april 14, 1894 at the first Kinetoscope parlor ever built.
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Louis and August Lumiere patent a combination movie camera and projector, capable of projecting an image that can be seen by many people. In Paris, they present the first commercial exhibition of projected motion pictures. Lumiere and his brother were the first to present projected, moving, photographic, pictures to a paying audience of more that one person.
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improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S..
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It was a black & white, silent film called The Lost World, is shown in a WWI converted Handley-Page bomber during a 30-minute flight near London.
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Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet.” The Vitaphone method that the studio uses involves recording sound on discs.
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Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse was the first to use a click track during the recording session, which produced better synchronism. "Mickey Mousing" became a term for any movie action (animated or live action) that was perfectly synchronized with music.
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with the award for the best picture in 1927 going to ‘Wings’.
The motion picture industries adopts the Production Code, a set of guidelines that describes what is acceptable in movies. -
The Public Enemy became popular. Dialogue now took superiority over “slapstick” in Hollywood comedies: the fast-paced, witty banter of The Front Page (1931) or It Happened One Night (1934),
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created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas like 49th Parallel (1941), Went the Day Well? (1942), The Way Ahead (1944) and Noël Coward and David Lean’s celebrated naval film In Which We Serve in (1942).
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and it was often the more old-fashioned films that produced the studios’ biggest successes. Productions like
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The development of the auteur style of filmmaking helped to give these directors far greater control over their projects than would have been possible in earlier eras. This led to some great critical and commercial successes, like Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Coppola’s The Godfather films, Polanski’s Chinatown