In episode 61 of Half True History, Dan Parrella tells Pedro Lima and Chris Crespo about the birth of the movie industry in the United States and the art form started as cheap vaudeville entertainment and grew into an international industry. There is talk of the zoopraxiscope, Edison’s Black Maria, Fred Ott’s Sneeze, the Wizard of Menlo Park, the Cinemagician Georges Méliès, The Great Train Robbery, The Birth of a Nation, and much more!
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