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In 19878, a British photographer named Eadweard Muybridge took the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move.
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In 1889, Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson invented the Kinetscope, a peep-show device in which film is moved past a light.
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In the 1890's the first motion-picture cameras were invented. This then caused the establishment of the first film production companies and cinemas. The films made at this current time were under a minute long and had no sound.
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Two French brothers patent a combination movie camera and projector, capable of projecting an image that can be seen by many people. The brothers were the first to present projected, moving, photographic, pictures to a paying audience of more that one person.
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In 1897, the first rotating camera was built for taking panning shots.
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In 1897 the first film studios were built. Special effects were soon introduced. Film started to begin involving action moving from one sequence into another.
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In 1899, animation was first used in movies.
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In 1900, the close up shot was introduced.
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In 1906 an Australian production was the first feature length multi-reel film.
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In 1906, the first animated cartoon was produced
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In 1910, actors began to receive screen credit for their roles. This got actors more well known and started producing 'film stars'
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American films had the largest share of the market in all European countries except France
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Around this time new film techniques were introduced such as the use of artificial lighting, fire effects and Low-key lighting for enhanced atmosphere during sinister scenes.
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As films grew longer, more complex stories came from novels or plays into a form that could be contained on one reel. Genres began to be used as categories, the most popular was comedy and drama, but these categories were further subdivided.
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During the World War, the film industry changed very much. Films changed from short one-reel programmes to feature films and enues became larger and began charging higher prices.
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1923, Warner Bros. was established
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In 1927 films had started to be produced with soound.
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in 1927, Warners released 'The Jazz Singer', the first synchronized dialogue (and singing) in a feature film
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The first drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey, USA.
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in 1937, the first full length animanted feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Walt Disney, is released.
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In the 1980s, more people began watching films at home on their VCRs. IThe film studios orginally tried legal action to ban home ownership of VCRs as a violation of copyright, which proved unsuccessful. The sale and rental of films on home video became a second venue for exhibition of films, and an additional source of revenue for the film industries.
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in 1995, the first feature length computer-animated feature, Toy Story, was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Disney.
