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21 Dec 1914
The first feature-length silent film comedy, 'Tillie's Punctured Romance,' was released, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Charlie Chaplin.
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3 May 1913
India's first-ever full-length film, Raja Harishchandra, was released in theaters.
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8 May 1912
The film and television production and distribution studio Paramount Pictures was founded.
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26 Feb 1909
A color motion picture is shown to the general public for the first time.
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6 Apr 1906
The Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by James Stuart Blackton became the world's first animation.
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1 Dec 1903
The Great Train Robbery, the first-ever Western film, was released.
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31 Aug 1897
The first movie projector, correctly named the kinetoscope, was patented by Thomas Edison.
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19 Mar 1895
The Lumière brothers record their first footage.
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15 Jan 1895
The world-famous Swan Lake ballet premiered in St. Petersburg at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre.
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1 Feb 1893
Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
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15 Jun 1878
The first motion picture was filmed using several cameras to capture galloping horses.
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5 Feb 1870
The first motion picture was shown to a theater audience at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
