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A bet between Edward Muybridge and Leland Stanford that at some point all of the horses in a horse race have all there hooves off the ground
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Thomas Edison invented te phonograph in 1877.
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The Motion picture camera was invented by Dickson
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Lumber brothers, Auguste, and Louis created cinematography and gave its commercial demonstration
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The first spectacular box-office success
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One of the first successful subtractive processes was two-color made by Herbert Kalmus's Technicolor Corporation
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Started in 1927 by the Warner Brothers when AlJolson starred in "The Jazz Singer". The talkies were an immediate success and made silent movies looked down upon.
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Film dipped here because unemployment rates were really high
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full length films were being produced during this decade. Frank Capra's 'It's a wonderful Life' and Orson Welles's 'Citizen Kane were released
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WWII had just ended and inflation was high
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Television was a great threat in the 1950s
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In 1967 the movie Bonnie and Clyde was released and changed how movies were made in the United States
