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British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move.
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made for a single person to look at moving images in a smasll machine with one eye
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short films 30 - 60 seconds of small visual moments
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vaudiville expanded into nickelodeons, you pay 1 nickle to see a movie, dancing, and hear music
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Henry Miles sets up the first film exchange, allowing exhibitors to rent films instead of buying them.
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first narrarive film was created, "the great train robbery, 12 minutes long
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nickalodeon theaters were attracting over 26,000,000 viewers a each week
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Photoplay debuts as the first magazine for movie fans.
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Winsor McCay unleashes Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated cartoon
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Walt Disney creates his first cartoon, "Alice's Wonderland."
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Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, hits theaters and becomes an instant classic
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West Side Story is adapted for the big screen, and will go on to win Oscars for Best Picture, Supporting Actor (George Chakiris), Supporting Actress (Rita Moreno), and Directing (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins).
