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  cardboard discs with slits around the edges
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  same principle as the phenakinstiscope but it is a cylindrical shape
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  -once a californian govenor
 -$25,000 bet
 -do all four hooves of a horse leave the ground simultaniously
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  inventd by muybridge, a machine that projects images to another surface
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  edison built the first motion picture studio near hisin new jersey. it was a shed
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  - 1st copyrighted film in USA
- first film in prodoction studio
 
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  topicals were invented on unpredictable news events audience prefferred story films
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  functioned as a camera,projector, and printer all in one
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  credited for the worlds first public film screening on december 28 1895. lasted 20 minutes.
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  invented by thomas edison but W.K.L dickson was credited for it
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  -trip to the moon
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  - first story film made by edwin s. porter -used parallel edeting
- narritive story with multiple plot lines
- a dummy thrown off the moving train first in film history
- filmed in 1903
 
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  Exhibitors had to rent films in order to watch it
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  five cent theatres