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It started when Thomas Edison and William Dickson, the same people that where involved with God Father invented the earliest form of film. A Sound-Film system that they called the Kinetophone, with it they both invented the introduction to sound in film.
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In February of 1900 the Eastman Kodiak company introduced the first camera for film, they called it the Brownie Camera the brownie camera was a very popular and inexpensive camera selling millings between the 1950s and the 60s. Some brownie camera are even a a folding like design where the lenses of the camera are attached to a cotton fabric that fold out when the Brownie camera box opens up
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A short 13 minute film called A Christmas Carol for Thomas Edison was one of the first and the earliest form of film and it is a silent film by Charles Dickens
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In the 1920 major film and motion pictures where established in Hollywood Los Angeles California; including Warner Brothers and fox and Metro-Godwyn-Mayer or MGM, Paramount, Universal, and Columbia where introduced later.
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Hollywood was threatened of McCarthyism with its accusations of communism, The Hollywood Ten refused to divulge any communist leanings and were imprisoned for contempt of court.
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In 1953 with the innovation and the creation of television or TV the film community needed to step it up so wides screen was invented to make bigger and better films
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The first 3-D film, relying upon stereoscopic technology, achieved wide release in 1953. Earlier attempts had been made, but the 1950s saw the popularity of 3-d.
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Motion picture ratings where first introduced the film industry for audiences to find movies more suitable for them it was G, PG, PG-13, R, and X but X was later changed to XR-17
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The Steady-cam, first used in Rocky, became available offering new options to filmmakers.
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With improving technology, 3D films became more popular. In addition, a number of new IMAX facilities, offering larger format screens were constructed. Today, many large-budget films can be watched in 2D or 3D.
