HIST 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Thomas Edison, Kinetoscope, New Imperialism
7 Dec 2013
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Science as a global phenomenon (after 1750, the modern era) Science play a really important role in how cinema comes out. In 1882 a camera come out that can take 12 picture per second, later evolves to take. In 1893 thomas edison invents the kinetograph to take videos for movies. He doesn"t do a good job patenting his inventions so many others great their own. By 1895 the first paid showing of a movie is shown by georges melies. In the early 20th century most movies are made by magicians. Melies makes over 400 films and opens an office in new york. Early film is dominated by the french. By 1905 there are two new players in film, melies is only interested in making projectors. Magic shows used to be big business, but taken over by the film industry. In the 1920s hollywood takes over as the center for cinema.
