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Article: Film
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- Dictionary of American History
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FILM
FILM.
Thomas Edison's company copyrighted its machine-viewable
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
in January 1894. Two years later the first public showings of projected Vitascope images took place on Thirty-fourth Street in New York City. These public debuts, culminating decades of technical development, mark the beginnings of American cinema. The medium was quickly extended by innovations by French filmmakers the Lumi
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re brothers, who introduced sequences, close-ups, using directors to construct scenes. French film artist, Georges M
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s introduced concepts of repeatable time, rather than progressive movement toward the future. Edison was, in fact, only ...