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The birth of motion picture
The French Lumiere Brothers improved on Edison's kinescope and invented the cinematographe, which was both a camera and a projector -
The first cinema
The first cinema opened in Paris. Films were simply scenes of moving images - trains,parades, waterfalls... Georges Milies, a French magician, introduced the idea of storytelling in films and was the first to use special effects -
Silent films
There were 10,000 cinemas in the US. An enormous amount of silent films was produced. Most were very short, lasting only a few minutes. In addition to a musical accomplishment, piano playing for example, live actors sometimes improvised dialogues. -
Hollywood Golden Age
Producers left for California where constant sunlight and varied landscape (mounties, sea, and desert) made it possible to shoot all types of films. -
Introduction of the sound
Introduction of the sound in the Jazz Singer, the first "talkie" -
The television age
With the increasing popularity of television, Hollywood's Golden Age came to an end. Films began to reflect the social changes of the times: some films critized American attitudes towards Native American (Little Big Man) -
The computer age
Computers have made it possible to manipulate images and create characters and things that seem real. The technique of morphing, in which objects change from before the viewers' eyes, was the first used in Terminator 2 (1990)