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By clicking this picture you will be take to the website where Microsoft can teach you how to use Windows Movie Maker.

That however is not your assignment. That is a bonus. If you finish the original assignment you might want to visit the website to see what else you could add to the project.

Your assignment: Make a short video about the beginning of Movie Making

1889: William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison, builds the first motion-picture camera and names it the Kinetograph.

1894: The Edison Corporation establishes the first motion-picture studio, a Kinetograph production center nicknamed the Black Maria (slang for a police van).; The first Kinetoscope parlor opens at 1155 Broadway in New York City. Spectators can watch films for 25 cents.

1895: In France, Auguste and Louis Lumière hold the first private screening. The brothers invent the Cinématograph, a combination camera and projector. The image of an oncoming train is said to have caused a stampede.

1903: Edison Corporation mechanic Edwin S. Porter turns cameraman, director and producer to make The Great Train Robbery. With 14 shots cutting between simultaneous events, this 12-minute short establishes the shot as film's basic element and editing as a central narrative device. It is also the first Western.

Here are the pictures. You need to save the pictures on your hard drive. Create a folder in "My Documents" and save the pictures there.

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson wiki
Thomas Alva Edison wiki
Kinetograph wiki
Black Maria wiki
Kinetoscope wiki
Auguste and Louis Lumière wiki
Cinématograph wiki
Edwin S. Porter wiki