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this image was made by using a glass plate technique Claude Niepce's photograph, it took 8 hours to expose.
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the Zoetrope was introduced by William George Horner.
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photograph production with the introduction of negatives on paper - as opposed to glass
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Eadweard Muybridge achieves success after five years of trying to capture movement.
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Etienne Jules Marey, inspired by Muybridge's animal locomotion studies, begins his own experiments to study the flight of birds and other rapid animal movements . The result was a photographic gun which exposed 12 images on the edge of a circular plate.
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He soon changed the mixture of chemicals that were used for Celluloid and created a new material that he called Photographic Pellicle or film.
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Thomas A. Edison, inventor of the electric light bulb and the phonograph decides to design machines for making and showing moving pictures.
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Thomas Edison's assistant, W.K.L. Dickson, begins devoting himself to the "motion picture project". He and his staff develop a horizontal-feed motion picture camera.
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, Edison and Dickson have their Kinetograph camera and Kinetoscope viewing box ready for patenting and demonstration.
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, Edison's Kinetoscope made its debut in London. The parlour which played host these machines did remarkably well and its owner approached R.W Paul, a maker of photographic equipment to make some extra machines for it.
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In March of 1895, R.W Paul and his partner Birt Acres had a functional camera which was based partly on Marey's 1888 camera. In just half a year they had created a camera and shot 13 films for use with the kinetoscope.
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R.W. Paul continued to improve his camera and invented a projector which began by showing copies of Acres' films from the previous year.
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American Mutoscope Company become the most popular film company in America -
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in Paris a catastrophic fire breaks out at the Bazar de la Charité's temporary cinema killing 121 people.
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The 35mm film gauge becomes widely accepted as the standard gauge for motion pictures, although Biograph and other film companies continue to use other gauges.
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Edison files a patent-infringement suit against the Biograph Company.
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In Paris, Ms. Alice Guy is named head of motion picture production for Léon Gaumont. She is only 26 years old.
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Edwin S. Porter, working for Edison makes "The Life of an American Fireman" which displayed new visual storytelling techniques and incorporated stock footage with Porter's own photography
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The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh.
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In his second big-screen appearance, Charlie Chaplin plays the Little Tramp, his most famous character
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In 1917, filmmakers were experimenting with Technicolor but it still had too many problems to be used. The colors were not very realistic looking
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Technicolor is introduced
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Walt Disney creates his first cartoon, "Alice's Wonderland."
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Galloping Gaucho and Steamboat Willie, the first cartoons with sound.
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Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, hits theaters and becomes an instant classic.
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Welles pushes the boundaries of montage and mise-en-scène, as well as sound, redefining the medium.
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Television overtakes movies in popularity;
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To counteract the threat of television, Hollywood thinks big and develops wide-screen processes such as CinemaScope, first seen in The Robe.
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typical of the French New Wave use of the jump cut, the hand-held camera and loose, improvised direction, is made for $90,000 in just four weeks.
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West Side Story is adapted for the big screen
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Marilyn Monroe dies of a drug overdose at age 36.
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Germany produces its first film.
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Tom Hanks wins his second consecutive Best Actor Oscar. He won in 1994 for his role in Philadelphia and in 1995 for Forrest Gump.
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Titanic crashes into theaters. It is the most expensive film of all time, costing between $250 and $300 million to produce and market.
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The American Film Institute announces its list of the top 100 films of all time
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Warner Bros. announces that 11-year-old British actor Daniel Radcliffe will play the titular wizard in Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, the first film to be adapted from the wildly popular series of young adult books by J. K. Rowling. The film is due out Thanksgiving 2001.