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  2. History of film - Wikipedia

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    This drama consisted of picture slides and moving pictures synchronized with phonograph records of talks and music. The early sound-on-disc processes such as Vitaphone were soon superseded by sound-on-film methods like Fox Movietone, DeForest Phonofilm, and RCA Photophone. The trend convinced the largely reluctant industrialists that "talking ...

  3. Florence Lawrence - Wikipedia

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    Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress.She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was long thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly [1] until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. [2]

  4. List of actors with Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture ...

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    A comedy duo of the late 19th–early 20th century, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew, is listed here three times—once for Sidney and twice more for his two wives, Gladys Rankin and Lucille McVey—therefore, subtract two from this list's total for the actual count of motion picture category stars.

  5. Tom Mix - Wikipedia

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    Shot in Dewey, Oklahoma with Selig studio cameramen, [8] the film was a success, and Mix became an early motion picture star. Mix performed in more than 100 films for Selig, many of which were filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico. While with Selig he co-starred in several films with Victoria Forde, and they fell in love. He divorced Olive Stokes in ...

  6. Jack J. Clark - Wikipedia

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    Clark traveled through 24 countries with the film company becoming one of the first American film stars to film on foreign location. While in the Holy Land, Kalem Studios produced the first passion play, From the Manger to the Cross, casting Jack Clark as John the Apostle. Clark and co-star Gene Gauntier were married during the filming, in 1912 ...

  7. Theda Bara - Wikipedia

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    Theda Bara (/ ˈ θ iː d ə ˈ b ær ə / THEE-də BARR-ə; [1] born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols.

  8. How New Jersey Became the Birthplace of the U.S. Movie ... - AOL

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    The American movie business started in New Jersey. Between 1893 and 1896 in West Orange, N.J., Thomas Edison was developing the early motion picture tech, inventing new ways to capture images in ...

  9. 1910s in film - Wikipedia

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    By 1912, major motion-picture companies had set up production near or in Los Angeles. [1] In the early 1900s, most motion picture patents were held by Thomas Edison 's Motion Picture Patents Company in New Jersey, and filmmakers were often sued to stop their productions.