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** Film in the USA ** Film all around the USA started to boom and become popular in the mid 1920's. However, stop motion movie pictures began as early as 1888. One of the most well known cooperations, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was officially founded on the 16th of April 1924 by Marcus Loew. About fifty films were made by MGM in the 1920's alone, including Sherlock Jr. Over the years, these cooperations including MGM and 20th Century fox made more money due to the increasing number of films being made, and were soon able to expand their filming knowledge and techniques with the sheer amount of money they made. In the beginning, films in the USA and around the world could only be published in black and white, until around 1934 when the first technicolour films were made. Hollywood, the worlds most renowned filming industry, had its first studio built in 1912 In 1894, the world's first motion picture exhibition was presented in New York, USA by Thomas Edison. He used his Kinetoscope to film. After a few decades, until the 1920's, sound onset wasn't particularly used as it had not been developed yet. The Jazz Singer, directed by Alan Crosland in 1927, was the first film to include voices. It was distributed by Warner bro's. Paramount pictures cooperation was founded by Adolph Zukor in 1912. It's original name was Famous Players Studios until 1914 when it changed to Paramount.
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