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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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Henry Miles sets up the first film exchange, allowing exhibitors to rent films instead of buying them.
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The first animated cartoon is produced
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click here The first African-American owned studio, The Lincoln Motion Picture Company, is founded.
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Lee DeForrest demonstrates a method for recording sound on the edge of a film strip.
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<a href='http://www.warnerbros.com/'Warner Bros. is established.
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Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is released.
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1992 Americans spend $12 billion to buy or rent video tapes, compared to just $4.9 billion on box office ticket sales. 76 percent of homes have VCRs.