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photographer Eadweard Muybridge took the first photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move.
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a kinetoscope where you are looking at moving images, people would usually pay 1 dollar to watch.
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an object that showed a short 20-30 second video to a small group of audience.
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in the early 1900's vaudevilles soon expanded into nickelodeons.
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in the 1900's there were short dramatic or comedy skits called vaudeville with songs or dance routines.
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Thomas Edison created the 12 minute short film The Great Train Robbery in 1903 with Edwin Porter.
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First animated cartoon was created
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the police in chicago have the authority to ban movies
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it all began with a 25,000$ bet to see if all of the horses feet are in the air.
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thomas edison created the peephole kinetoscope, only one person was able to look through the hole.
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Motion Picture Patent Company led by Thomas Edison, pretty much a club to control the film industry.
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soon the film industry moved to west coast, or California because for on the lighting, and two if MPPC were to come to LA they could quickly escape to Mexico to save everything.