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 * 1877 **** Charles Emile Reynaud invented the Praxinoscope, a mirrored drum that gives the illusion of movement using strips of pictures one of these inculed the Roundhay Garden Scene. **

** 1895 **** Louis and Auguste Lumiere patented Cinematographe, a device that could project movies to several people at the same time. December 28 1895 they presented the first commercial display of a movie to an audience, running 20 minutes, consisting of 10 short stories. **
 * 1881 **** William Kennedy Laurie Dickson designed the Kinetoscope, a kind of movie projector and ran a trial of a movie called 'Monkeyshines'. **
 * 1882 **** Thomas Edison's invention of the Kinetoscope with was used by Holland Brothers to opened the first Kinetoscope shop in New York. This was the first commercial exhibition of movies. **
 * 1903 **** 'The Great Train Robbery' is considered to be the first real full length movie, the first narrative Western film with a storyline, and the first real smash hit **

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