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The bet
Edward Muybridge made a 25,000 $ bet that a horse at full speed has all four feet off the ground they set up a bunch of cameras to capture each movement and after they noticed the picture motion -
Thomas Edison one eye inventions
Thomas Edison invented a one eye projector for a 30 to 60 second movie to get more money -
The first movie theater
the first movie theater was called kineticoscope parlor where people would come to watch movies indivially -
The Big projector
The Lumiere brothers invented exactly what Thomas Edison was afraid to invent the big projector displaying the 30 to 60 second movies -
the nickelodeon
after the 30 to 60 second movies the cast would come out on stage and preform a skit and then get booed off stage they called it nickelodeon because you would only pay a nickel -
SOUND
MOVIES DIDNT HAVE SOUND UNTIL 1920 AND THAT GAVE US SILENT MOVIES -
The First Story telling movie
Most movies were 30 to 60 seconds but the first movie to tell a full story within 12 minutes was The Great Train Robbery. -
THOMAS EDISON
THOMAS EDISON GOT TOGETHER WITH OTHER MAJOR COMPANIES AND AT THE TIME OWNED EVERYTHING THE WAS TO MAKE OR PRODUCE MOVIES -
ACTORS AND ACTRESS
MOST ACTORS AND ACTRESSES WOULDNT GET PAID BECAUSE THOMAS EDISON WAS AFRAID THEY WOULD BECOME FAMOUS SO HE WOULDNT GIVE THEM CREDIT -
The change from New York to LA
movie producers and actor/actresses would flee to mexico or LA to get away from thomas edison and his goons that would come to their house and destroy their film making equipment or hurt their actors/actresses -
LOS ANGELES
THE CHANGE TO LA WAS BECAUSE THE WEATHER WAS NICE AND IT WAS BEAUTIFUL THATS WHERE MOST SELF FILM PRODUCERS WENT -
EAST NEW YORK
MOST FILMS WERE SHOT AND FILMED IN EAST NEW YORK BECAUSE THOMAS EDISON BOUGHT OUT ALL THE STUDIOS AND THATS WHERE THEY ALL WERE
