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  2. List of cinematic firsts - Wikipedia

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    The first Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition on May 9, 1893 and is the earliest known example of actors performing a role in a film. [4] The world's first film production studio, the Black Maria, or the Kinetographic Theater, was completed on the grounds of Edison's laboratories at West Orange, New Jersey, for the purpose of making ...

  3. Lists of films - Wikipedia

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    Lists of feature film series. List of films produced back-to-back; List of films with post-credit scenes; List of longest running film series and franchises; Spin-off films* List of film remakes* List of Disney live-action adaptations and remakes of Disney animated films; List of English-language films with previous foreign-language film ...

  4. History of film - Wikipedia

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    Overall, from about 1910, American films had the largest share of the market in all European countries except France, and even in France, the American films had just pushed the local production out of first place on the eve of World War I. [citation needed] Pathé Frères expanded and significantly shaped the American film business, creating ...

  5. List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition from silent film to sound, between 1926 and 1929. [1] During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone , as well as sound on ...

  6. The Jazz Singer - Wikipedia

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    The first aired August 10, 1936; the second, also starring Gail Patrick, on June 2, 1947. [54] Disney made reference to the film, and its follow-up The Singing Fool, in the title of the 1929 Mickey Mouse short, The Jazz Fool. [55] The Jazz Singer was parodied in the 1936 Warner Bros. cartoon I Love to Singa, directed by Tex Avery.

  7. List of the first films by country - Wikipedia

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    Silent film Sound recording Colour film Longest film Notes United Kingdom: 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) [1] [2] Algy the Piccadilly Johnny (1900) Blackmail (1929 film) Representatives of the British Isles (1909) [3] USA: 1889 Monkeyshines (1889) The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895) Children Forming the U.S. Flag (1909) O.J.: Made in ...

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    James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

  9. DVD - Wikipedia

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    The DVD specifications created and updated by the DVD Forum are published as so-called DVD Books (e.g. DVD-ROM Book, DVD-Audio Book, DVD-Video Book, DVD-R Book, DVD-RW Book, DVD-RAM Book, DVD-AR (Audio Recording) Book, DVD-VR (Video Recording) Book, etc.). [1] [2] [3] DVD discs are made up of two discs; normally one is blank, and the other ...