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Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge bets that a horses 4 hooves come off the ground so he takes fast pictures to prove it -
Kinetoscope Parlor
Kinescope parlors shows movies through a small telescope but only works for 1 person. -
Cinematographe Lumiere
First real movie theater with a projector in France where people would watch a movie for 30-60 seconds. -
Vandevill are popular
Small theater that featured short dramatic skits, comedy shows, and song and dance numbers -
Studios move to Hollywood
Hollywood studios are formed because weather is nicer in California. -
The first real movie is released
The great train robbery is released and is 12 minutes long -
First Nickelodeon theater
Small Theaters that showed films -
Nickeloden Theaters attract huge crowds
Nickelodeon theaters attract 26 million viewers each week -
Thomas Edison forms the MPPC
The Motion Picture Patents Company is formed by Thomas Edison where he go's to regulate movie equipment. -
MPPC didnt want to list names of actors in films
They didn't want actors/actresses to be greedy with money.
