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The Bet
It all started with a bet at a horse race for $25,000 that all four feet of the horse was off the ground at the same time -
How it started
Creating the Ilusion of motion from a series of still images were displayed in devices that anyone who wanted to pay to see them would get to -
Thomas Edison Invention
Edison invents the peephole kinetoscope and likes the fact that only 1 person could view at a time -
Edison gets greedy
Edison invented the cinematographe first but didnt want to produce it because he would make more money -
The French do it anyway
The Lumiere brothers in france produce the cinematographe which is 30-60 second films -
Vaudeville is created
Vaudeville ( small theatres that featured short dramatic skits etc..) got popular -
Nickelodeons
you pay one nickel to see a film in a small storefront-type theatre (accompained by an ocrastra) -
The Great Train Robbery
First US narrative film was created by Thomas edison and edwin porter -
Nickelodeons get popular!!
nickelodeons were attracting 26 million viewers each week, 5 years later that number doubled -
MPPC
Thomas edison and his band of misfit film makers created the Motion Picture Patents Company to police all the films that were being created -
Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford
Big name Actors and Actresses were made into superstars, Mary pickford and Charlie Chaplin we most famous -
California- Birth of Hollywood
Film makers went west to avoid Thomas Edison and bad weather for film making