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The first Zeotrope was invented by William George Horner. It was a mechanical form of a motion picture "projector" that created the illusion of motion.
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Matrix effect was created by using static cameras. Muybridge created the "galloping Hourse"
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The praxinoscope was invented by Emile Reynaud. it used a strip of photographs placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. (See picture)
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Marey "Inventor of Cinema" made photographic gun that could take 12 photos per second !! Known as chrono photography.
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William Friese-Greene and John Rudge invented an enhanced magic lantern. It became one of the earliest motion picture cameras and projectors. Biophantascope,
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Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, and Laurel and Hardy are all making films as the Golden Age of Comedy begins.
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Nitrate celluloid film (a chemical combination of gun cotton and gum camphor) was invented by Hannibal W. Goodwin from America.
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French inventor Louis Augustin Le Prince developed a single-lens camera. He used his camera to make the very first moving picture sequences (of traffic on a Leeds, England bridge), by moving the film through a camera's sprocket wheels by grabbing the film's perforations. Many called it the first movie ever shot and then shown to the public.
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George Eastman introduced the lightweight, inexpensive "Kodak" camera. It used paper photographic film all rolled up. Eastman registered the trademarked name Kodak.
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George Eastman presented his new celluloid film that replaced large bulky cameras.
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The Lumiere brothers shoot the "first Film Ever" called "Workers Leaving the Factory". Opened in Paris December 28, 1895
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George Melies known as the "Father of Special Effects" created "The Haunted Castle" He used transitions such as disolves and fade outs/ fade ins. He also used double exposures, time lapse, cross-cutting, camera panning, and on-location shooting.
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First public showing of a motion picture to a paying audience - April 23 1896 in Newyork. Featured Edison and Tomas Armats's Vitascope.
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George Melies Shoots "A Trip to the Moon" making the very first significant use of special affects and narrative voice-over in a film.
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"The Life of an American Fireman" released by Porter "Father of the story of film" became one of the first american narrative films. It built aa continuous narrative.
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Lois Weber becomes the first successful American Filmaker. She earned $5,000 per week - the highest paid women director of the silent era.
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Mary Pickford from Canada created her own Film Corporation in Hollywood. Pickford became the first movie star to form and own a film company.
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The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari is released, Lev Kuleshov helps found the Moscow Film School, which leads to the development of the montage. United Artists is formed by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks; Louis Delluc and Ricciotto Canudo found the FIRST of many French societies for the preservation and presentation of the great films.
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The Sound Era begins when "The Jazz Singer" opens on 6 October featuring a soundtrack. It was 270 minutes , but later it was re-released to its original 5-hour length in 1981.
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The First Academy Awards presentation is held on 16 May,the Marx Brothers make their first movie, Cocoanuts.
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*mid-1930s The television is introduced and the movies declare war.
