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The bet
An englishmen made a bet with his friends that once a horse reached full speed all four of its hooves would be off the ground. -
Projector
Thomas Edison inventd a projector but didnt release the idea out to the oublic because he thought usung the Kinetoscope would make more money even though only one person would be viewing at a time. -
Motion Picture
Soon after the bet was made, Eadweard had "created" motion pictures. This was eventually turned into something clled a Kinetoscope, where people would pay money to view short "films".(pictues presented at a fast pace). -
Film
Eadweard released or producted the first moving picture in 1882 after the murder of his wife. -
Film movies
Lumiere bothers in France who also made a projector ( not knowing that THomas had created one) and released te idea out to the oubic so more than one person could see these motion pictures at once. These lasted 30- 60 seconds. -
Nickelodeons
Vaudeville skits and comedy routines were preformed to fill up time between acts of small films. Nickelodeons were store-front type teatres that showed films. -
EdwinPorter
Created the first narrative film ' The Great Train Robbery'. This film had 14 scenes and lasted 12 minutes. -
MPPC
Motion Picture Patents Company.This was led by Thomas Edison and his plan was tp control raw film stock, equiptment and film distribution. -
Location
Films were usually created in New York and along the east coast , but the lighting was bad for production so film eventually moved to California. It was also close to Mexico incase anyone had to make a getaway from Thomas Edison. -
Early days
Nickelodeons now started attracing over 26-million viewers each week and that nuber had later doubled years later. Since film was becoming so popular more people were trying to make their own studios. -
Actors
Many film directors didnt want to name the actors or actresses in their films because then they would need to pay them for working in their movies. -
SIlent FIlms
Many films had no sound yet. Charlie Chaplin was a famous actor in many silent films and would make usually $150 a week but soon after his career took off he was making over $1 million a year.