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video
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1867
Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope -
1895
The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895 -
1895
In 1895, Lumiere and his brother were the first to present projected, moving, photographic, pictures to a paying audience of more that one person. -
1901
Edwin S. Porter, who started making films for the Edison Company in 1901 -
1907
In 1907 there were about 4,000 small "nickelodeon" cinemas in the United States. -
1910
actors in American films, who up to this point had been anonymous, began to receive screen credit, and the way to the creation of film stars was opened. -
1910
It was around 1910 that the actors in American films, who up to this point had been anonymous -
Between 1900 and 1935, !
Dozens of natural color systems were introduced, although only a few were successful -
1929
By 1929 there were more than 20 companies holding color patents -
1980
In the late 1980s, Kodak introduced the T-Grain emulsion, a technological advancement in the shape and make-up of silver halide grains in their films