Motion Pictures

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MOTION PICTURES

sequences of photographic images projected onto a screen in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement

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Samuel Michael Fuller
independent filmmaker

David Llewelyn Wouk "D.W." Griffith
ground-breaking director

Marie Georges Jean Méliès
pioneer of many movie special effects

(David) Samuel Peckinpah
director and writer of films known for their violence

Edwin S. Porter
director of the first motion picture to tell a story

Steven Allan Spielberg
movie and television producer and director

Orson Welles
maker of "the greatest film ever made"

Motion Picture Milestones, Records, and More

1930

1960

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