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small theaters that featured short drama skits, comedy routines, etc.
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it started with a $25,000 bet. they beted that all four legs on a horse are off the ground and a point when the horse is at full speed. the guy who said all four legs get off the ground won the bet.
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they looked at the picture fast and say that it looked like it moves by its self
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Edison's company had devised the peephole kinetoscope
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the lumiere brothers in france made a projector that could showed 30-60 seconds motion pictures on a screen for an audience that they called cinematography
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vaudeville's became known as nickleodeons
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in 1903 the first U.S. narrative film, The Great Train Robbery was created by Thomas Edison's employee Edwn Porter
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other film companies tried to compete but, thomas edison and his goons raided their studios
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le by thomas edison, sevral companies formed a trust called the motion picture patents company
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the mppc plan was to combine patents to control things such as the production of raw film stock, projection equipment =, and film distribution and exhibition
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the film industry revolved around New York
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many film companys moved to the west coast to shot and release films. To get away from Edison since it was close to mexico