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The Bet
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 -
The Invention
Thomas Edison invented te phonograph in 1877. -
motion picture camera
The Motion picture camera was invented by Dickson -
To the Public (Demonstration)
Lumber brothers, Auguste, and Louis created cinematography and gave its commercial demonstration -
The great train robbery
The first spectacular box-office success -
Color
One of the first successful subtractive processes was two-color made by Herbert Kalmus's Technicolor Corporation -
Talkies
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. -
The Great Depression
Film dipped here because unemployment rates were really high -
Full Length films
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 -
Decline of Hollywood
WWII had just ended and inflation was high -
Threat
Television was a great threat in the 1950s -
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Turning point in movies
In 1967 the movie Bonnie and Clyde was released and changed how movies were made in the United States
