Cinema
Filmmaking, visual effects, and movie history
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Cinema
The first projected motion pictures were hand-painted onto perforated strips of paper
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Cinema
Life-sized moving images were projected for public audiences a year before the Lumière brothers
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Cinema
A 90-minute boxing match in 1897 established the commercial viability of feature-length films
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A single French company controlled half of the global film market before World War I
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Cinema
The 1914 film Cabiria pioneered the use of camera dollies to navigate massive sets
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Denmark's early film industry dominated Europe by specializing in sensationalist social dramas
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Mechanical linkages synchronized gramophone records to silent film frames as early as 1903
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Early cinematographers created ghosts on screen by physically cranking film backward and re-exposing it
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Cinema
The 1899 film The Kiss in the Tunnel first used editing to imply chronological narrative
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Cinema
The reverse-angle shot was invented in 1900 to heighten tension during a rescue scene
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Cinema
The Great Train Robbery introduced parallel editing to show two events happening at once
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Cinema
The Salvation Army operated the world's first major dedicated film studio in Australia
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The first director to create a planned narrative film was a woman named Alice Guy-Blaché
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The illusion of motion was first achieved using spinning disks with radial slits
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Eighteenth-century horror shows used rear projection and smoke to create immersive ghost spectacles
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