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Started with a bet
A bet of 25000$ was made, in one moment when a horse was running full speed has all 4 hooves off the ground. One person said to try to prove, so they put a line of cameras and when a lever was pulled, a domino effect of taking pictures. The better won, all hooves were off the ground. -
The first theater
The kinetoscope theater, was the first theater to be made when moving pictures were found. A kinetoscope was a box with a peep hole to look though to look at a group of pictures going though fast. Sadly it can only be for a person for one. Thomas Edison was the inventor of the kinetoscope. -
The true makers of the classic theater, and long length movie.
Edison did not want to let people watch movies together, but the Lumiere brothers made a way for people watch movies together. They were 30-60 seconds movies, they show a guy fall off a horse, or a train going toward to the audience. -
What happen to vaudevilles?
Vaudevilles were small performing theater for skits, comedy routines, songs, and dance numbers. Soon they they start showing the short films, and afterwards the skits and stuff happens. Since they were only a nickel, they were soon called nickelodeon, and thats how the nickelodeon channel was made. -
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The Movie Mover
Most old movies were made in the east side of the U.S. But there was 2 reasons it moved across the states. First, the weather was hell and was difficult to film there, and second, so it can get away from the MPPC. -
first narrative movie in the U.S.
"The Great Train Robbery" was the first U.S. narrative. It was the first movie be based on true events, and to have camera shots and distance. It had 14 scenes and lasted 12 minutes. -
The MPPC
The Motion Pictures Patent Company was formed by Thomas Edison to make a monopoly. If company's tried to compete against
the MPPC, but it was very risky. -
Film Monopoly
The Nickelodeon theaters were attracting 26 million and more people, doubling that the next year. Soon those theaters were good money for people who wants some profits, so people try to take the monopoly over the theaters. -
The actors.
The MPPC didn't put the name of the actors at the end of there movies to make more money, but if the audience know the name of the actor they would come back and watch more of the persons work. The MPPC found this out and showed the actors names, which introduced... -
The Actor Way
Charlie Chaplin was the first famous film star, and he was the master at silent comedy.
