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Eadward Muybridge
It started with a 25,000 bet at an horse race with friends, saying that at full speed a horse's hooves are off the ground at some point. He wins the bet, and as he looks at the pictures of the horse and notices if you look at them quickly, the horse looks like its moving. -
One of the first " Movie theater ' The Kinetascop Parler.
People would come an look through a small peep whole and watch the " movie " like a flip book. They were short, and the disadvantage was that only on person could use it. They thought that if they only let one person at a time use it, they would make more money. -
Thomas Edison and the peephole kinetasope
Thomas edison was the first person to invent the " projector " but he didnt tell anybody about it because he wanted more money he made from the kinetoscope. -
The lumiere Brothers and the Cinemograph
The brothers from France invent the Cinemograph and the projectors. They were the first to actually put the projectors out in the public and put them in the cinema's. The Cinemograph was muh smaller then edisons kineograph. The videos were 30-60 seconds long. In between the movies they would have small perfomances called Vaudville. People would dance and perform small skits untill the next film. You would pay a nickle to see them, this is where Nickelodian comes from. -
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon was the first to have the first movie theater in the U.S, they featured Vaudville in order to make a little more money. They were small theators. Movies didnt have sound so they even had sound effects and music. -
The Great Train Robbery
Was the first movie ever to tell an actuall story. it was 12 minutes long an empolye of edison and Edwin Parker made the movie. -
Edwin Porter
He was a employer of Thomas Edison, he created the 12 minute The Great Train Robbery. He used different camera positions and distances intoduced it had 14 scenes. -
MCCP
After Nickleodion started making millions from their skits, Edison came up with a way to profit by controlling the movie bussiness. THey controlled everything from actors to the equipment to make the the movies. -
From New York to California
Movies started out in New York City, but because of the foggy and rainy weather it was eventually moved to L.A. Another reason for it moving was Edison. Edison wanted to be the only one making money from Picture Patents. If he found out that you were making a movie on your own, he would find you, break all your equipment, break your actors legs, and your legs. This caused movie entrepenuers to move to sunny California, so if need be, they could run straight to Mexico so Edison wouldn't find them -
The Actors
Thomas Edison and MPPC didn't want to have the actors names on the the credits, he didn't want them to become famous and demand more money for their work. The Companies on the west coast had different idea's. They recognize that without the actors there wouldn't be a movie, so they gave them credit. -
Charlie Chaplin
The Comedian first started out making only 150$ a week, but by 1917 he was making a million dollars a year. a lot of his films were about evil and good in society. He made fun of dictators and other people.
