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The French Astronomer Pierre Janssen created a series of photographs of the passage of Venus across the Sun using his "photographic revolver".
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The Kinetoscope is released as the first camera to be able to create fine enough pictures to make films.
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Film was silent minus live orchestras and sound effects by producers over this timespan.
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The Lumière brothers Auguste and Louis produce the first film that possessed quality and gave momentum to the improvement of film.
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Georges Méliès built one of the first film studios.
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The year motion pictures finally reach a point they can properly be considered films.
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Carl Laemmle opens one of the first movie theaters in Chicago.
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In this timespan Hollywood quickly became the central for film.
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Universal Studios is founded.
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Paramount Pictures is founded.
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Fox Film is founded.
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The Society of Motion Picture Engineers is founded in the United States.
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The Gulf Between is released in the United States, being the first film made in Technicolour System 1, a two-colour process.
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Warner Bros. is founded.
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The Walt Disney Studio is founded.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is founded.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded in LA. The 1st Academy Awards(aka Oscars) were to be awarded to films made in 1927 and 1928.
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Lights of New York premiers as the first 100% talkie, aka the first movie with talking and sound throughout the film.
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The Broadway Melody is released by MGM, becoming the first major musical film of the sound era.
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The first Oscars are given.
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The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiers, one of the most known Disney films and often regarded as their first.
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The Wizard of Oz premiers, one of the most known and most seen film in history.
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Disney's Pinocchio premiers, a film considered the best animated film of all time.
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Son of Lassie premiers, the first film to use the Technicolor Monobook method.
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The Wilhelm scream, one of the most used stock-effects, is first used in the movie Distant Drums. [Wilhelm Scream(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio)
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Bwana Devil, the first American 3-D film premiers, beginning the demand for 3-D films.
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The Japanese film Godzilla premiers, beginning the longest running film series.
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The movie Gigi is released as the end of the demand for musicals, becoming a respected face future musicals would rely on.
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The prototype for IMAX large-format-film acquisition and screening system is exhibited in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.
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The film Westworld premiers, being the first film to use digital image processing.
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Star Wars premiers, the beginning of a giant franchise, and also the beginning of omitting an opening credits, which has lasted to the day.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark premiers, setting a big standard for future action films.
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The THX sound system is developed.
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Toy Story premiers, being the first film made entirely in computer generated imagery(CGI).
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3D technology in films greatly increases.
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More sequels than any other year are released
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This is the current year.
