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The Silent Movie Era.
During this period movies had no sound. When they aired they had a piano playing in the background. One of the Big Stars during the time was the Amazing Charlie Chaplin. -
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The Start
The Start of the huge movie industry started with a bet that put Thomas Alva Edison the guy who invented the first motion picture to make history. -
The First Motion Picture.
In 1872, Stanford offered Eadweard Muybridge, a world-famous photographer of landscapes $25,000 to find the answer. Muybridge wasn’t quite sure he could set up and perform an experiment to settle the dispute, but with that much money at stake he agreed to take on the challenge. And he was right. -
Paper Film is Invented
Paper film was developed in 1885. -
How they did it.
Celluloid- used to capture the film they shot, but later on was found to be to flammable.
They would shoot 10-15 minute videos and put them in places like coffee shops and places like that for money. -
Vaudeville
Was what the people in that time called theaters, which showed some of the motion pictures, and real life performances.
They became popular really fast and thus started the theaters we now go to. They are later known as Nickelodeons. -
The Lumiere Brothers
In 1895 created a projector that would show motion pictures on a screen to an audience.
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HollyWood Land.
Hollywood started because Edison was greedy and charged every one that wanted to make a movie. A group of people when to California and started Hollywood which is not the main place for movies and stars. -
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Color Film
Around 1912 the movie had one of the best Ideas that will change the industry forever. That invention was colored movies.
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The Talkie
By 1937-1940s, Silent films ceased to production and everything was a talkie!
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CGI
From Jurassic Park to Endgame movies like blockbusters, had a special editing called CGI. Which made the things in the movies seam real.
