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Sanford was the governer of California in 1878. He made a bet with Eadwared Muybridge for $25,000 about whether horses' hooves all lifted off the ground when running. Sanford had someone built a shed and put 12 different cameras in it to capture 12 pictures of the horse tunning at different times. Sanford put all of the photos together and he ended up winning.
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Eastman invented a camera for peole to carry around so people can take pictures withous using one of the really big cameras.
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This was the first tarpaper shed which was the very first motion pivture studio; where they worked on making films.
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This was the first ever copyrighted film in the US made in the Black Maria.
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This was the period where kinetescopes were becoming really popular to show. They were collect money for a 20 second features.
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People started really getting into films, seeing that everything was new to them.
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This was when the first public viewing of a film happened. The films were about 20 minutes long and they played about 10 films. This took place in the basement of the Grand Cafe` in Paris.
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The novelty period started dying down and films were becoming a normal thing.
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George Melies was a magician who started adding films to his shows to get more people's attention.
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This is the time whne Nickelodeon Theatres started becoming famous bcause it only cost $0.05 to get in.
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This film was so succesful that it influenced other films to become longer and having more scenes in then. This is also when more movies started being shown in theatres.
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This was the ending time of Nickelodeons being a big thing, but it was just the start of Nickelodeon.
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Around this time, directors started considering what characters would actually do in the scenarios they made the actors do, so they made the charcters' rolls more realistic.
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This is when Edwin S. Porter got fired from his big company job.
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This is when movies (a.k.a. feature films) strated getting longer scenes, and longer all together.
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Editors, camera men, script-write... et c...
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This is the year that Melies made his last film ever.
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This is when the people in charge of films started gibimg the scripts to the directors so they could make the actors do what they wanted, not the producers.
