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It all started with a bet
The bet was 25,000. The bet was placed by Eadweard Muybridge the bet was that when a horse reaches full speed all four legs are off the ground. -
Thomas Edison And W.K. Dickson
Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson develop the Kinetoscope, a peep-show device in which film is moved past a light. -
First movie theater
The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh. -
Animated cartoon
The first animated cartoon -
Charlie Chaplin
The first and highest paid actor in that time.Charlie Chaplin the comic genius whose plight we’ll discuss later/ by 1917 he was making more than a millions -
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford known as America's sweetheart -
Sound
The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid- to late 1920s. At first, the sound films which included synchronized dialogue, known as "talking pictures", or "talkies", were exclusively shorts. ... -
Nickelodeon
By 1925 Nickelodeon theaters were attracting 26-million viewer per week/ five years later that number doubled/ Big profits -
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. is an American entertainment company that is a division of Time Warner and is headquartered in Burbank, California. -
The Sea Hawk
The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American black-and-white swashbuckling adventure film from Warner Bros. that stars Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. -
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study. -
Jaws
is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name.Now considered one of the greatest films ever made,.
