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Louis-Jacques-Mande and William Henry Fox Talbot create perfect positive and negative photography. -
Eadweard Muybridge, an American British photographer, helps develop series photography which helps allow motion picture photos to be captured. -
A series of photographs captured by 12 cameras creates a timeline of a horse's gallop and show the new technology of motion pictures. -
Louis de Prince creates a series of short films using the new methods of motion picture -
Photography is put on sensitized films of different materials and they begin manufacturing celluloid films. -
Auguste and Louis Lumiere invent the first viable projector. -
The projection is brought to the United States and given its first public demonstration at Bial's City Music Hall which laid the foundation for the American Film Expedition. -
Manufacturers begin to successfully sell projectors and film which allowed the film to be captured and used to create diverse experiences by anyone. -
The first cinema directors pop up, they help tell people where to stand when taking the pictures and how to develop them to make the best product. -
With the presents of directors in the business and the outpour of films being made, film theaters are established. -
The first film to achieve international success is Le Voyage dans la Luna. -
15,000 workers are working in the film industry in Hollywood and 60% of all film productions are done there. -
There are around 21,000 movie theaters in the United States. -
African Americans and white directors attempt to work on a film together called The Birth of a Race. -
By 1930 people were using film to express opinions and move specific audiences like we see today. Acting, directing, and being in the film business at all became a legitimate job.
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