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The very first patented film camera was the one devised by Wordsworth Donisthorpe in 1876. Another film camera was designed in England by Frenchman Louis Le Prince in 1888.
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The first ever motion was of a horse running to see if all hooves were off of the ground when running.British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move.
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A series of horses running was the first form of motion picture. The pictures were initially used to prove that all 4 hooves of a horse are off the ground at once
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The motion picture camera was created by Thomas Edison and Wiliam Friese-Greene. Thomas used an invention that let people watch showns through a peephole.
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Film started off with 30 to 60 second short films that people paid to see. later movies got longer.
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Alfred Clark created what is commonly accepted as the first-ever motion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume
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L'Arroseur Arrosé L'Arroseur arrosé also known as The Waterer Watered and The Sprinkler Sprinkled was the first comedy film made.
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The first horror movie was "Le Manoir du Diable" created in 1896
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The first theater in the world was the Nickelodeon where admission was a nickel.
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First Animated Cartoon Ever. “Fantasmagorie“ is a French animation film by Émile Cohl created in 1908.
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The first trailer shown in an American film theater was in November 1913, it was a short promotional film for the musical The Pleasure Seekers, opening at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway.
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World's first 3D feature film - given by film maker and inventor Harry K. Fairall, entitled The Power of Love. It opened at the Ambassador Hotel Theatre in Los Angeles on September 27th 1922 - and the reviews were very favourable.
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The first movie with sound was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927. The movie was a hit.
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The first Oscar was awarded May 16, 1929; 88 years ago.
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The most well-known movies to use color were "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind", both from 1939.
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Black-and-white images are not usually starkly contrasted black and white. They combine black and white in a continuum producing a range of shades of gray.
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Filmmakers increasingly depicted explicit sexual content and showed gunfight and battle scenes that included graphic images of bloody deaths.
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Movie stores allowed you to buy or rent video tapes, compared to going to the movie theatre.
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More films began being released simultaneously to IMAX cinema, the first was Disney animation Treasure Planet.
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3D in animation gets popular the best critical and financial success was the feature film animation of Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar’s Toy Story 3.
