The First Movie
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The first person to ever successfully photograph motion was Edweard Muybridge in 1877. The way he accomplished this was by lining up 20 cameras in a row. He then had a horse run past them. The horse would trip strings that were attached to each camera. This caused the camera to take a picture o ....
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.... with an enthusiastic round of applause.
This pioneered the movie business. From this humble beginning came movies with actual plots. Of course, they got a bit longer than this first minute and half. The movie business flourished in the twenties, but when the Great Depression came along the it suffered greatly. As the economy began to pick up, so did the movie business.
New genres like horror came on the scene in the early thirties. The first horror movies were Dracula directed by Todd B ....
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