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  2. History of film - Wikipedia

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    The use of film as an art form traces its origins to several earlier traditions in the arts such as (oral) storytelling, literature, theatre and visual arts. Cantastoria and similar ancient traditions combined storytelling with series of images that were shown or indicated one after the other.

  3. History of film | Summary, Industry, History, Technology,...

    www.britannica.com/art/history-of-the-motion-picture

    history of film, history of cinema, a popular form of mass media, from the 19th century to the present. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Early years, 18301910

  4. List of years in film - Wikipedia

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    1895 – In Paris on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris making the first commercial public screening ever made, marked traditionally as the birth date of the film. Gaumont Film Company, the oldest ever film studio, was founded by inventor Léon Gaumont.

  5. When Were Movies Invented? A Brief History of Motion Pictures

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    Who invented movies and when? Let’s take a trip back to the mid 19th century to hopefully answer our question of when. Early Years 1830s and the Zoetrope. In the early years, even before the invention of photography, toys were invented to view a series of drawings in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

  6. First Movie Ever Made: The Early History of Film

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    The first movie ever made was an 11-frame clip shot on June 19th, 1878, using twelve separate cameras (frame 12 was not used) to film a man riding a horse on Leland Stanford’s (the founder of Stanford University) Palo Alto Stock Farm (the eventual site of Stanford University).

  7. History of Film Timeline — All Eras of Film History Explained

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    The history of film timeline covering every major era of film history, from its beginnings in 1895 to the present day and everything in between.

  8. When Was Film Invented? The invention of film as a medium can be traced back to the 1880s when George Eastman developed celluloid film strips. However, the concept of capturing sequential images to create motion pictures evolved over several years, with multiple inventors contributing to its development.

  9. When Were Movies Invented? A Complete History - Filmmaking...

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    When Were Movies Invented? Movies, or motion pictures, were invented in the late 19th century. The first demonstration of motion pictures was given by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878.

  10. The history of film from the 19th century to the present |...

    www.britannica.com/summary/history-of-the-motion-picture

    Following the invention of photography in the 1820s, attempts began to capture motion on film. Building on the work of Eadweard Muybridge and others, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and his employer, Thomas Edison, developed one of the first motion-picture cameras, the Kinetograph, in 1891.

  11. 1 Silent Cinema: The Beginning of Film Form (1895 – 1928)

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    Film history begins well before the invention of the motion picture camera. To understand how and why the film industry has grown to become the primary mode of artistic expression in the world, we must first carefully trace the path of early cinema, which developed the movie standards that we use today.