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In 1891 Thomas Edison and his company made the kinetoscope. The kinetoscope was a projector that passed a strip of film through a lens and electric lightbulb to create a movie to be filmed through a peephole at the top.
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In 1895 the Lumiere Brothers made the projector. The projector was able to play very short films that were 30 seconds to 1 minute long.
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The first western ever. It was made by Edwin S. Porter. It had 14 shots cutting in between events and it was 12 minutes
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The first movie theater opens in Pittsburg
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Rin Tin Tin was the first movie star that wasn't human. Rin Tin Tin also saved Warner Brothers from going bankrupt.
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The rating system of G, PG, R, and X comes out
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James is important to him history because it is the first franchise. Jaws was a novel that later became three films by Steven Spielberg
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Jurassic Park was important because of their use of animatronics in order to make the all of the dinosaurs in the film.
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Titanic is the third most expensive film ever made. It cost around $295 Million dollars. It also received 13 oscars.
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The Matrix popularized 'bullet time" from the scene where he doges a bullet. In "bullet time" multiple cameras are set around a subject to get multiple frames to make a really really really detailed slow motion scene.
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Finding Nemo replaces The Lion King as the highest grossing film of all time. Shrek then became the highest grossing animated film in 2004.
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Avatar is important because of its use of CGI. The majority of the film uses CGI to create entire worlds and race of people.
