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Movie making otherwise known as cinematography, consists of the rapid movement of many still photographic pictures on the screen, a product of 19th century scientific research. No one person invented cinematography, by 1914 movie making was just as popular if not more in Scandinavia, Europe and Russia. As movies started to get longer accompanied by a narrator as a story telling feature, more people started to pay to see movies which rapidly grew the industry itself. World War I disrupted the film industry in Europe allowing Hollywood to become the mecca of film making!

The Lumière brothers in 1895 were the first to present projected, moving photographic pictures to a paying audience. Color was first added to black and white films by tinting and stencilling. By 1906 color separation were used to produce full color moving images, however color films were too expensive to produce until 1932 with the establishing of three color Technicolor process.

The first movie attempt at using synchronized dialogue was The Jazz Singer which used the Vitaphone system, although, this system proved to be unreliable and was soon replaced by an optical, variable density soundtrack that ran along the edge of the film. The onset of successfully adding sound to films secured the dominant role of the American film industry and gave rise to the "Golden Age of Hollywood".