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Leland Stanford made a $25,000 bet, that when a horse ran, all 4 hooves lifted off the ground at the same time. He hired Eadward Muybridge to take pictures of it. They couldn't get a picture mid run because of exposure time on the camera, so they set up 12 cameras on tripwires to take mid-run pictures of the horse. He won the bet.
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Without the lightbulb, films couldn't exist.
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Black Maria was the first motion picture studio, and was owned by Thomas Edison and W.K.L. Dickson
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Fred Ott's sneeze is filmed in the Black Maria
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The show was 10 short films lasting 20 minutes in total.
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Kinetoscope was a Peephole Viewer that lasted 20 seconds, and was a collaborative effort of Thomas Edison and W.K.L. Dickson.
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A French silent film directed by Georges Melies
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A fiction film about a group of men robbing a train.