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First motion picture
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison, builds the first motion-picture camera and names it the Kinetograph this allowed them to film and put out motion pictures -
The Edison Corporation
this corporation establishes there own first movie theater type area where they could charge people 25 cents to see a movie -
the first private screening
in france they held the first ever private screening and made a machine that could play the film and project it -
Edwin S. Porter
this man created the first western style movie with the great train robbery -
movie theater
then the first movie theater inhistory -
first movie review
The New York Times publishes the first movie review, a report on D. W. Griffith's Pippa Passes -
movies gain sound
Thomas Edison introduces his kinetophone, which makes talkies a reality -
movie gain magazines
Photoplay debuts as the first magazine for movie fans to look at while they wait for certain things -
first animated cartoon
In his second big-screen appearance, Charlie Chaplin plays the Little Tramp, his most famous character Winsor McCay unleashes Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated cartoon -
war movies introduced
technically brilliant Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, introduces the narrative close-up, the flashback and other elements that endure today as the structural principles of narrative filmmaking -
movie strars
German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin becomes film's first canine star -
walt disney
he creates his first cartoon Alice's Wonderland