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Adding sound to the movies surprisingly decreased the popularity of them because many different kinds of people were viewing them back then. They costed a lot of money to convert the movie theater to sound, so most didn't do it till the late 20s.

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Kinetoscope was a box that you could view a sequence of pictures on an endless band of film. Where they got the name to this was "Kinto" meaning movement and "Scopes" meaning watch.This was the beginnings of a projector. These were often very load so they would hire live audiences.

Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

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Directed by Fred Niblo
Staring Douglas Fairbanks and Marguerite De La Motte
Douglas Fairbanks was an Actor, Screenwriter, Director, and Producer. Known to play as a superhero in movies.
Born May 23 1883
Died Dec 12 1939
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(AandE Television Networks,1)
(Wild West April 2009, 1)

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Directed by John S. Robertson
Staring John Barrymore and Martha Mansfield
John Barrymore (grandfather of Drew Barrymore) was an actor on screen and radio
Born Feb 14th or 15th 1882
Died May 29 1942
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The Stars by Richard Schickel Pg 62
(AandE Television Networks, 1-3)
(Winning, 1-3)

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Directed by Rubert Julian
Staring Lon Chaney and Mary Philoin
Lon Chaney was an Actor, Make Up Artist, Director, and Screenwriter.
Born April 1st 1883
Died Aug 26 1930
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The Stars by Richard Schickel Pg 70
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(Gehring, 8-10)

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Directed by Walt Disney
Staring Walt Disney
Walt Disney was an American Entrepreneur, Animator, Voice Actor, Film Producer, and a Pioneer of American Animation Industry.
Born Dec 5th 1901
Died Dec 15th 1966
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The Stars by Richard Schickel Pg
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(Obalil, 1-4)
(Edelman, 5)

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Directed by Allen Dwan
Staring Wallace Beery and Douglas Fairbanks
Wallace Beery was an Actor more known in the 1930s
Born April 1 1885
Died April 15 1949
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(The Famous People.com, 1)
(Narducy, 1-3)

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In the early 20th century US was the lead producer of movies being 800+ movies a year. Vitaphone was a sound on disk system developed by Bell Telephone laboratory. This was used for the sound in the movies.
Vitaphone films : a catalogue of the features and shorts / Roy Liebman.

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A couple more popular genres of movies in the 20s are westerns and musicals. One popular movie from that time in the western genre is called tumbleweeds it was made in 1925.

Book Source- ''History of western movies''

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Fantasy films such as Horror and science fiction were very popular in the 1920s. In the 1920s the edition of sound and special effects enhanced the ability of the film makers to make stand out movies.

http://horrornews.net/27999/vintage-screams-list-of-key-horror-genre-films-of-the-1920s/

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According to the internet the first ''talkie'' was released in October 1927, called "The Jazz Singer''

http://www.filmsite.org/silentfilms.html

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the major film studios in the 20s were...Warner Bros Pictures, A Paramount Pictures, RKO radio pictures, Metro Pictures Corporation, and finally Fox films

http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html