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"Moving images" is what they would call these, and they would only be enough for an audience of one person.
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"America's Sweetheart" she was in many moving images, just like Charlie Chaplin.
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Thmas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers in France wanted to do what Thomas Edison wasn't wanting to, which was projection motion pictures on for the audience. They called the invention the Cinematographe, and started making 30-60 second short films.
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It started as a bet for $25,000, by creating a series of still images of motion fro still images.
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They put together patents to manage things like the production of live film stock, and projection.
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The longest film from back then was fourteen scenes in twelve minutes called, "The Great Train Robbery." Nickelodeon theaters had 26 million viewers a week.
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Charlie Chaplin did "Silent Comedy", he started out with working $150 for a week,and by 1917 he was making more than a million a year.
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A small theatre but it included Musical Acts aswell because no sound was included, the sound affects had to be done but people, or the piano. They also still have a cartoon channel named after on of their famous shows, because it only cost a nickel to get in so they called it the Nickelodeon.