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This groundbreaking motion photography was accomplished using multiple cameras and assembling the individual pictures into a a single motion picture. it’s something that you could do today, using a few cameras that are set to go off at an exact moment.
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The world's earliest surviving motion-picture film, showing actual consecutive action is called Roundhay Garden Scene. It's a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. While it's just 2.11 seconds long, it is technically a movie.
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison. Builds the first motion-picture camera and names it the Kinetograph.
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This 50-second silent film shows the entry of a train pulled by a steam locomotive into a train station of the French coastal town of La Ciotat. It’s a single, unedited view illustrating an aspect of everyday life, and the film consists of one continuous real-time shot.
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The most well-known movies to use color were "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind", both from 1939. However, pre-dating those classics by more than 20 years was a 1912 film called "With our King and Queen Through India", and a 1918 silent film called "Cupid Angling".
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It took five years but Technicolor tried again in 1922 with “The Toll of the Sea”. The first general release film entirely shot under the Technicolor banner.
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The earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927.
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The first animatronic figure of a person is created by Disney and is Abraham Lincoln, featured at the Illinois State Pavilion of the 1964 New York World's Fair. 1968: The first animatronic character at a restaurant is created.
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2D CGI was first used in movies in 1973's Westworld, though the first use of 3D imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld (1976). Which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.
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JVC released the first VHS machines in Japan in late 1976, and in the United States in mid 1977. Sony's Betamax competed with VHS throughout the late 1970s and into the 1980s
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Titanic crashes into theaters. It is the most expensive film of all time, costing between $250 and $300 million to produce and market.
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Steven Spielberg's Jaws is one of the most financially successful films ever made. ... Its influence on the film industry Jaws had a huge influence on the film industry. It wasn't just the first 'event' movie, it also welcomed in a new era of mass movie marketing and merchandising.
