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1. Early newspapers were developed by
elite
businesspeople and patriots for a small,
politically involved
that could read.
entrepreneurs, entertain-
2. The early movie industry was built largely by
ing
who wanted to make money everyone.
3. Beginning with the Paris premiere in 1895, people had literate
to become film .
4. The story goes: that when the film was first shown, the The Arrival of a
Train at a
audience was so overwhelmed by the moving Station.
image of a life-sized train coming directly at
them that people screamed and ran to the back
of the room. What is it?
Leland Stanford
5. 1873 former CA governor needed help
win- ning a bet he made with a friend.
Eadweard Muybridge
6. Leland Stanford turned to well-known
photographer
to arrange a series of still cameras along a
stretch of racetrack. As the horse sprinted
by, each camera took its picture.
7. Eadweard Muybridge invented the . Zoopraxiscope
8. A machine for projecting slides onto a they were
distance sur- face. in motion.
This
9. When people watched the rapidly projected, perception
sequen- tial slides, they saw the pictures as if is the resu
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of a physiological phenomenon known as . Zoopraxiscope
persistence of vision
10. persistence of vision
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When occurs, the images our eyes
gather are retained in the brain for about 1/24 of
a second. There- fore, if photographic frames
are moved at 24 frames a second, people
perceive them as actually in motion.
Thomas Edison
11. Eadward Muybridge's invention led him to
meet
in 1888 - who quickly saw the potential of the
zoopraxiscope.
12. assigned , a leading scientist, to devel- Edison; William
Dickson
op a better projector.
13. devised the Kinetograph. William Dickson
14. The kinetograph captured photos per second 40
to make a motion picture.
15. kinetograph: An innovative motion picture
camera with rapid intermittent, or film
movement, to photograph movies
16. Thomas Edison built the first motion
picture studio near his laboratory in .
17. Edison called the first motion picture studio
, the common name at that time for a police
paddy wagon.
18. It had a open roof and revolved to follow the
sun so the performers being filmed would
always be
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stop-and-go
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illuminated
19. The completed films were not projected. Instead they Kinetoscope
were run through a .
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