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Using many cameras, Eadwerd Muybridge takes picutres of different positions of a horse and makes it look like it's running. In doing this, he proved that at one point when a horse runs, all four legs are off of the ground.
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Marey construted a gun looking camera that could take twelve photoos per second of moving animals or humans.
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In 1888 Louis le Prince filmed "Roundhay Garden Scene" in Leedes, England.
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The first movie picture projecter was made.
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The verticle feed motion picture camera in the summer of 1892, which is the basis for the 35mm film. Also, "Black Maria", the world's first film production studio or America's first movie studio was established.
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In france, Louis and Auguste Lumiere began filming documentaries. Exiting the Factory and The Sprinklers Sprinkle are two of the documentary.
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Georges Melies, other known as the Father of Special Effects, began using stop motion photography multiple exposers, time lapse photography, fades, and other special effects to make movies such as the Haunted Castle.
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Eastman Kodak introduced his new simple box camera called the Brownie camera. They sold for $1.00.
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Melies films "A Trip to the Moon". This was the first film shot at a set. It also had costume changes.
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In 1902, Porter filmed "The Life of an American Fireman". It was 7 scenes renderred in 9 shots.
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Porter filemed this movie in 1903. This film contains cruss cutting, double exposure composite editing, camera movement, and on location shooting. There was even color in some scenes.
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"A Fool and His Money" , directed by Alice Guy-Blache was noted as the first film with only African-American actors.
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Movie directer Ince, is known most for creating Inceville. This was the first modern Hollywood studio.
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In 1912-1913, movies began appearing in actual theaters instead of the nickelodeons.
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DW Griffith filmed "A Birth of a Nation" in 1915. His goal in this and his other movies was to ccreat a cinema world that reflected our own world.
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In 1922, Walt Disney's "Little Red Ridinghood" was released. It was made in Laugh O Grams studio in Kansas City.
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This film introduced the first two-color process.
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The Warner brothers made their film distribution and production into a corporation.
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Warner brothers , along with Western Electric, decided to develop a system to add sound to movies.
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The Gangster Genre was became popular in the Depression. In the 1940's and 1950's the Genre became much darker.
