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It started with a 25,000 bet to see whether or not a horse could have all its feet off the ground at the same time while runing. 4 guys took a pic at the same time and discovered the first slideshow. Speeding this up led to the making of film.
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When motion pictres was first realized, there wre a lot of prototypes being created. but all of them failed. The working one that our present day was based on was called the kinetiscope.
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The Lumiere brothers devised a plan to make a motion picture machine in France. In 1895 they started producing a series of short films.
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At this time Vaudvilles were poular. they are small places that feature short films. This expanded into Nickalodeons.
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Edwin Poter created the first Narrated film. It was 12 minutes long and had 14 scenes.
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These were small storefronts stores where films were played. They were accompanied by piano and soud effects.
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in the early days, Nickelodeon was attracting 26 million people a day. 5 years later that number had doubled. Film soon attracted big profits.
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Thomas edison and the other movie companies created a trust. There idea was to use there patents to control the making of film. They were expecting big money.
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Back then all films were shot outside. Most movies were shot in the summer because they neede a lot of light and weather didnt cooperate.
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There were a lot of people creating films in Mexico. They didnt want to pay the MPPA and mexico had a lot of great scenery to use.
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The MPPC didn use the actors real names fearing they would become famous and demand more money. A famous man from film is Mary Pickford. He starred in most of the films in 1912
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In the 1920s Charlie Chaplin was the genius behind silent comedies. He got payed 150 dollars a week by 1917 was making more than a million a year.
