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film events

  • first motion picture studio

    first motion picture studio
    the Edison corporation established the first kinetograph
  • movie theater

    movie theater
    the first movie theater opened in Pittsburg
  • kinetophone

    kinetophone
    Thomas Edison made the first kinetophone
  • narrative close up

    narrative close up
    d w Griffith's civil war epic introduced the narrative close up
  • first cartoon

    first cartoon
    walt disney made their first cartoon "Alice's wonderland"
  • winning award

    winning award
    "it happened one night" won best picture, director, actor, and actress.
  • retirement

    retirement
    actress greta garbo retired at age 36
  • jump cut & hand held camera

    jump cut & hand held camera
    jean-luc, typical of the new French wave use of jump cut and the hand held camera
  • first horror movie

    first horror movie
    "physco" introduced horror into the movie theater
  • movie ratings

    movie ratings
    movie ratings like g, pg, r, and x were introduced to theaters
  • Star Wars

    Star Wars
    Star Wars was introduced for the first time and became extremely popular and the 2nd highest grossing film of all time