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How it all began
Film started over a $25,000 dollar bet that a horse had all four legs off the ground at one poin while galloping -
How it all began
The Lumiere brothers invented a projector that could show a motion picture to a whole audience called a cinematographe -
Taking off
During the 1890s Vaudville was a small place were people preformed skits and dances. and in between acts they would show short films so the crowd wouldnt get bored -
Taking off
In the 1900s vaudvllle got so big that they had to expand to the nickelodeons. nickelodeons were small theaters that featured films with one or two vaudville acts -
First movie
in 1903 an employee of thomas jefferson, edwin porter, created the first U.S. narrative film called "The Great Train" -
popularity
By 1910 the nickelodeon theaters got so popular they were attracting more than 26 million viewers a week and had theaters all over the place -
popularity
by 1915 they more than doubled the people that were showing up at the theaters (56 million) -
Competition
Thomas Edison decided to take ove rthe film business so h crated the motion picture patents company (MPPC) and they took out the independent movie companies by roughing them up everytime they tied to make a movie -
Expanding
they used to only make movies on the east coast because thats where they originated from but that chaged becaus ethe weather in the east coast didnt match up to the standards of the producers and the independent movie companies were farther away from the MPPC and could do what they wanted -
expanding
the actors moved to the west coast to make films because the MPPC decided they didnt want to show the names of the actors when the west coast did -
Fame and fortune
because the ators moved to the west coast they became more popular and two of them stood out the best. Mary Pickford (America's sweetheart) and Charlie Chaplin (comic genius) -
Fame and Fortune
Silent comedy became popular and Charlie Chaplin was in the center of it. he went from makeing $150 a week to 1 million dollars a year
