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The Industry
The cinema is an invention without a future.
LOUIS LUMIERE
Moving images had existed before. Shadows created by holding various types of objects (puppets, hands, carved models) before a light were seen on screens all over the world. This type of entertainment, which most likely originated in Asia with puppets, was also popular in Europe and the United States. Then the Lumiere brothers created the cinematograph, an early form of moving camera, in Paris in the late 1800s. Little did they know.
Next came Thomas Alva Edison with his kinetograph, and shortly thereafter, the motion picture industry was born. Edison invented the first camera that would photograph moving images in the 1890s. Even Edison did not have a monopoly on moving ...
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