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Louis J.M. Daguerre invents the daguerreotype. Robert Cornelius takes the first picture of himself.
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Took a series of pictures of a horse running. The cames were tied with trip wires so when the horse broke each wire a picture would be taken.Proved that a a trotting horse momentarilly has all four feet off the ground at once.
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Created by Eadweard Muybridge. Considered the first movie projector. Projected pictures from glass disks that rotated fast enough to make it seem like the pictures were moving.
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Device used to watch film through a peephole. Was not a movie projector but led up to it. Invented by Thomas Edison and William Dickson
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Thomas Edison and William Dickson built the first motion picture camera named the kinetograph.
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A combination of both a kinetoscope and a phonograph.
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The first motion picture studio nicknamed the Black Maria. Light came from an aperture in the roof and the entire studio could be rotated to catch the light.
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The Lumiere brothers invented the cinematograph, a combination of both a camera and a projector.
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One of the first narrative fiction films ever made.
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Sets up the first film exchange, allowing exhibitors to rent films instead of buying them.
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One of the most iconic images in the history of cinema.
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The first western and had editing as a central narrative device
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Harry Davis opens the first nickelodeon in Pittsburgh.
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Changed name to Paramount Pictures on 1914. One of the largest film and television production and distribution studio.
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Carl Laemmle organizes Universal Pictures, which became the first major studio.
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Charlie Chaplin plays the little tramp, his most famous character
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The first African-American owned studio, The Lincoln Motion Picture Company is founded.
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Was a racism film, showed black men and the bad guys and the KKK as the good guys.
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Was a silent romantic drama film. Besed on the best selling romance novel.
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Lee DeForrest demonstrates a method for recording sound on the edge of a film strip.
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one of the most forebonding and influential horror film
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Was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
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Walt Disney creates his first cartoon.
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Warner Bros. is established. An American producer of film, television and music.
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Sergei Eisenstein makes Potemkin, a revolutionary portrait of mutiny aboad a battleship. Hailed as one of the most influential propaganda of all time.
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Silent film comedy starring Chalie Chaplin as the Little Tramp, his most memorable character.
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One of the greatest silent films ever made. Starring Buster Keaton.
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The first film in which the audience can hear the actors speaking.
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Mickey Mouse is introduced in the cartoon Steamboat Willie.
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The first Academy Awards were announced, with the award for the best picture in 1927 going to Wings.
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The first drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey.
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Technicolor introduces a three-color process in the film Becky Sharp.
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Walt Disney's first full length feature.
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Hollywood introduces Cinerama and 3-D. Widescreen process that projected images from 3 different projectors into a curved screen.
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System that released odor during the projection of a film so that the viewer could "smell" what was happening in the movie.