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It all sarted with a 25,000 dollar bet. People claimed that racing horse didnt have any feet on the ground. To prove that the horse did they set up an expierment. This experiment included a rapid sequence of photos, This prooved that the hore indeed have all 4 feet on the ground.
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Edisons company had created peephole kinestiscope which turned out to be a good succes and was making quit a bit of money
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Vauderville was like small theaters that had short dramatic skits, and comedies. To fill in time,they has to stall by playing short shows in between. They later expanded into nickelodeon.
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An employee of Thomas Edison, Edwin Porter created the first U.S. narrative film called, The Great Train Robbery. Porters film had 14 scenes and lasted 12 minutes, A real epic by the standards of the day.
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They attracted 26 million people each week! That number doubled within 5 years. To insure big bucks they attempted to control everything.
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Motion Picture Patents Company , led by Thomas Edison the plan was to use their combined patents to control almost everything in the motion picture industry
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Most videos were shot on the east coast, but this quickly changed. A because of lighting and they shot outside and the weather there never cooperated. B because they were far from the MPPA and could retreat to Mexico if needed.
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The mppc did not want to list the names of the actors because they were afraid that the actors would become well known and would want more money.
