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In the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, the idea of "synergy" dominated the motion-picture industry in the United States, and an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions pursued this ultimately elusive concept.

First Motion Pictures "I'm going to make a name for myself. If I fail, you will never hear of me again."-Eadweard Muybridge, ca. 1852 Animated horses galore: Animation of the man riding a jumping horse Animation of a galloping horse Animation of a cantering horse Eadweard Muybridge was born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1830.

Adolph is an interesting businessman. He created Paramount pictures and this link contains some of his tactics and ways that he lured in americans to his films including hiring big-name actors to be featured in his movies.

Universal Pictures is one of the big six companies. Recently they made it to the top of the list on IMDB with their movie "Despicable Me 2". Also starting to notice a trend where a lot of movies are focused toward the younger audience such as children, teens, and young adults. That seems to be where most of the film income is made. Why?

This is a cool video cause it shows some of the very first motion pictures and goes through the history of key people and technology.

Another overview of the history of film, I was particularly interested in the affects WW1 and WW2 had on the film industries of american and european cinema

Edison sues over motion-pictures technologies and patents. This is important because he invented many things and companies began to sort of copy his things.

Futuristic movie theater picture

Picture of a movie theater

Born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison rose from humble beginnings to work as an inventor of major technology. Setting up a lab in Menlo Park, some of the products he developed included the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, electric light bulb, alkaline storage batteries and Kinetograph (a camera for motion pictures).

Born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison rose from humble beginnings to work as an inventor of major technology. Setting up a lab in Menlo Park, some of the products he developed included the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, electric light bulb, alkaline storage batteries and Kinetograph (a camera for motion pictures).

good pictures for futuristic 3D technology

Picture of the parts of a digital projector

picture of an almost empty movie theater

"Thaumatropes are the first of many optical instruments developed to study persistence of vision. They typically consist of a cardboard disc with thread attached on the left and right sides. On each side of a round piece of card stock is a picture, painting or illustration. The images are designed and placed so that when the disc is spun by rolling the threads back and forth between the fingers and thumbs. The faster the disc is spun back and forth, the more the two pictures appear as one!"

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Information about the invention of the Vitascope and projectors. Edison has his hands on patents that insured his rights to this invention.

This talk about Thams and his invention. For example he came out with the vitascope, kinetograph, kinetoscope, vitascope. He also own motion picture Patent company too.

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This sight has a wealth of information about early film technology and inventors

This is a great YouTube to tell everyone what is the motivation of making film come from. Also, it tell more about the people that are involve with inventing film more than the book tell us.

explains how movie palaces were back in the day and how it worked out.