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First "movie" is made
First "movie" is made of a horse running by Eadweard Muybridge.
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First motion picture camera is created
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, along with Thomas Alva Edison, makes the first motion-picture camera called the Kinetograph.
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Cinématograph is invented
In France, Auguste and Louis Lumière hold the first movie screening. The Lumières invented the Cinématograph, a combination camera and projector.
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First film distributed globally
Georges Mélièshe produced a 30-scene narrative Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon). It was nearly one reel in length, or 14 minutes. It was the first globally distibuted film.
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First continuously action filled film
Edwin S. Porter creates The Great Train Robbery a film that is acknowledged to be the first narrative film to achieve action continuously
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First movie theatre
The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's named Nickelodeon Theatre.
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First form of color film
British Kinemacolor process, is presented to the public as one of the earliest forms of color
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First movie that with sound.
The Jazz Singer is the first movie that has sound. When Thomas Edison helped to create movies, he always wanted to pair them up with his phonograph to create films with sound, and The Jazz Singer achieved this.
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First animated movie
Walt Disney creates the first animated movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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First color movie
The Wizard of Oz, is released as the first color movie. It started off in black and white, then turned to color after Dorothy lands in "Oz".
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First Widescreen Film
The first widescreen film, The Robe, premiered.
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First 3D Movie
The first 3D movie came out, House of Wax 3D
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Choose your own Adventure
You may soon control what happens in the movie you are watching in a theatre. Viewers can vote on their phones what they think should happen, and the most popular vote becomes the next part of the film. Fox and CtrlMovie announced this tech in 2016, and it is still being developed, so I set the date at 2018, as it is still technology of the future.
https://www.blog.com/2018/01/04/how-technology-continues-to-revolutionize-the-film-industry/
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Augmented and Virtual Reality
We've all heard of Virtual and Augmented Reality, but it soon will be in movie theatres. Paramount FIlms has movies set to come out using this tech in 2018, possibly including Terminator 3D.
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3D Glasses Free
In the near future, we may be able to go to a 3D movie, without wearing glasses. Avatar 2, coming in 2020, is said to be debuting this cool new tech.
https://blogcom/2018/01/04/how-technology-continues-to-revolutionize-the-film-industry/
