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The history of film began in the 1890s
The history of film began in the 1890s, when motion picture cameras were invented and film production companies started to be established. -
1928
The history of film began in the 1890s, when motion picture cameras were invented and film production companies started to be established. Because of the limits of technology, films of the 1890s were under a minute long and until 1927 motion pictures were produced without sound. -
1850
Note the term used in the early days of the industry: Moving pictures. Pictures that movied. From the 1850s on, there had been experimentation by photographers and others in reproducing human motion. First short motion pictures arrived in the 1890s. -
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The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. -
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. In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière introduced the Cinématographe, a projector that could show 16 frames per second. -
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The Lumiere brothers were not the first to project film. In 1891, the Edison company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. Later in 1896, Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S. -
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. The first use of animation in movies was in 1899. The first feature length multi-reel film was a 1906 Australian production -
1921
This is a change that had begun with the long D.W. Griffith epics of the mid-1910s -
saw a vast expansion of Hollywood
The 1920s saw a vast expansion of Hollywood film making and worldwide film going. -
1935
All of this changed in 1926 when Warner Brothers, in conjunction with Western Electric, introduced a new sound-on-disc system. In this system, sound effects and music were recorded on a wax record that would later be synchronized with the film projector.
