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Entry: The Early History and Development of Film - A87784069
Author: Bluebottle - U43530

A Flea Market Rescue based on the history of film up to the end of the 19th Century.
Original:
A864245 History of Film
By:
U204088 - Oberon2001
U186749 - Tonsil Revenge
U188966 - Trout Montague

Trout Montague felt that the article should have a timeline, so I have included one. I'm not always sure how well timelines work, as lists aren't the most exciting method of relaying information, but with so much happening at the same time I can see that including one would have a benefit.
Similarly, it was Tonsil Revenge's intention to include a section on Robert Hooke. If one of the original authors strongly believed that a paragraph on a genius from the Isle of Wight is required, it would be rude of me to refuse.

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It does, indeed - and well-organised.

Might I suggest that you link to some examples of what you're describing, from www.archive.org? That site, which is free and can be seen everywhere, I think, has excellent resources for students of early film history.

Here's one: http://archive.org/details/cavalo_muybridge

A zoetrope:

http://archive.org/details/ChrisCampbell-JohnsZoetropeAnimation951

1888 Roundhay Garden Scene:

http://archive.org/details/Roundhay_Garden_Scene

The sneeze:

http://archive.org/details/ThomasEdisonCo.FredOttSneeze

Lumiere Brothers, including the workers leaving the factory:

http://archive.org/details/EarlyLumieryFilms

For Melies, how about 'The Devilish Tenant'? Great effects:

http://archive.org/details/TheDevilishTenant

Thanks - I've added most of the links, all except the one for Méliès, as I was hoping to keep things before the end of 1901 if possible.

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Ok, had a better read now.

There is a bit repetition. In the opening section we have:
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Then in the following section there is:
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Robert Hooke 1666:
<> principle --> principal
< This is a bit misleading. In 1666, Hooke mentions a drawing aid but only in 1668 did he present a paper to the Royal Society describing a projecting instrument. It is unfair to call Hooke the inventor of the CL as his device was really just a further development on the work of others.

Robert William Paul:
<> premiere --> premier

You can stop the text from wrapping in the Date column of the table by adding a width attribute to the table header definition:
DateEvent

Premiere corrected, Date column sorted ( I didn't know that one) and the two sections combined into one in the Steam Time section. I've also changed Hooke from having invented to developed the Camera Lucida.

I've also added 'The Early History of Film' to every sentence, just as I know how much you love repeitition for dramatic emphasis

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Minor spelling mistakes etc corrected.

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Wow, I really became interested in Louis le Prince. I know Edison was a nasty customer, but I never thought he'd resort to murder but Louis's dissappearance and his brother's Adolphe Le Prince death in 1900 on Fire Island in a duck shooting incident, certainly raises questions. Especially as there was a patent lawsuit which occured two years before.

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