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The First Film was made in 1878 from trying to prove a scientific discovery but realizing the potential of how real it looked so they experimented and thats how films were introduced and produced.
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the lumiere Brothers Invented the first Camera and Projector
and made many films that would later come in retrospect earlier
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The first Cinema was made and showed in Paris
and was the first to introduce story telling and was a total success
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In 1903, the Edison Corporation produced the first western, and established the use of shots and editing in film. This also is the growing popularity of story films, over daily life scenes or news.
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Edison invented the Kinetophone, making talkies an option. They would not become popular for more than 20 years, however.
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Released in 1927, The Jazz Singer is the first feature-length talkie. The film starred Vaudeville sensation Al Jolson.
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Becky Sharp invented a way to make films in color
using red and blue panels but later was cut because
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Hollywood was threatened by McCarthyism, with its accusations of communism. The Hollywood Ten refused to divulge any communist leanings and were imprisoned for contempt of court.
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With the invention of television, film needed to up its game. New widescreen processes to produce bigger and more exciting films were the answer.
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Motion picture ratings were introduced in 1968, with G rating, PG, R rated and X. PG-13 came significantly later. The X rating will later be replaced by NC-17
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The Steadycam, first used in Rocky, became available makeing new options to filmmakers such as making smoother actions used for making more precise movements
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In 2003, for the first time, home entertainment revenues exceeded the box office. The DVD took over for the video cassette in 2003 as well.
