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As America was transformed by the arrival of millions of immigrants in the 1890s, the first generation of American filmmakers joined with other innovators and entrepreneurs to create a bright new entertainment form that would transform the world. Thomas Edison perfected a device called the Kinetoscope that made pictures move, for one viewer at a time. In France, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière brought scenes of everyday life to the screen for a large audience, while the magician Georges Méliès created startling visual effects on film and Alice Guy Blaché became the first female film director. In the U.S., moviemaking in these early days was concentrated in New York, New Jersey and Chicago.
Christopher Plummer
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Leonard Maltin
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Ricky Jay
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Carla Laemmle
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Daniel Selznick
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Gregory Orr
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Marc Wanamaker
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Bob Balaban
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Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
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Tony Maietta
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Molly Haskell
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Donald Bogle
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Peter Bogdanovich
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Richard D. Zanuck
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Robert Osborne
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Gore Vidal
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William Wellman Jr.
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Andrew Bergman
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Marsha Hunt
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Sidney Lumet
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Paul Mazursky
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Roger Corman
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Mark Harris
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Walter Mirisch
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David Brown
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Peter Guber
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Robert Benton
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Buck Henry
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John Sayles
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