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  2. History of film - Wikipedia

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    The film also used the first "reverse angle" cut in film history. [64] The following year, Williamson created The Big Swallow. In the film. a man becomes irritated by the presence of the filmmaker and "swallows" the camera and its operator through the use of interpolated close-up shots. [65]

  3. List of years in film - Wikipedia

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    1885 – American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invented a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use. L'homme Machine, was directed by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey; it is the oldest black and white animated known film.

  4. History of film technology - Wikipedia

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    The Pleograph, invented by Polish emigre Kazimierz PrószyƄski in 1894 [51] was another early camera. It also doubled as a projector. ... but after a few years the ...

  5. List of cinematic firsts - Wikipedia

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    Later that year on October 19, the Edisonia Hall opened in Buffalo, New York in the Ellicott Square Building. The Edisonia was the first known dedicated, purpose-built motion picture theater in the world. [13] Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female film director [14] makes La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy) acknowledged as the first narrative ...

  6. Film - Wikipedia

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    A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, [a] is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. [1]

  7. History of cinema in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Feeble, flickering films of travel scenes were the usual fare." The theater remained open for two years, making it the first permanent movie theater in the world. November 7, 1897 ad for the Vitascope Theater in Buffalo, New York, one of the first theaters created especially to show motion pictures. In its first year there were 200,000 ...

  8. Color motion picture film - Wikipedia

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    The film had various parts of the film painted frame-by-frame by twenty-one women in Montreuil [3] in a production-line method. [ 4 ] The first commercially successful stencil color process was introduced in 1905 by Segundo de Chomón working for Pathé Frères .

  9. List of the first films by country - Wikipedia

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    The Song of Love (film) (1930) The Last Days of Pompeii (1926 film) The Best of Youth (2003) Spain: 1896 Salida de la misa de doce de la Iglesia del Pilar de Zaragoza (1897) [6] Japan: 1898 Bake Jizo (1898) Reimai (1926) Fujiwara Yoshie no furusato (1930) Gate of Hell (1953) Sweden: 1912 A Ruined Life (1912) Denmark: 1897 Kørsel med ...