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    I learned a lot from Elizabeth's presentation on the history of the motion picture. I had known that the history of movies started around the early 1920s, but what I was unaware of was the fact that the history of the motion picture had started as early as 1888, with the first motion picture being only about three seconds long. One of the very interesting facts I had learned was that Louis Le Prince was also a huge innovator for the early history of the motion picture. He was responsible for the first motion picture clip, and the Kinetoscope, which was one of the earliest inventions to view a motion picture. The motion picture industry also had a very slow, albeit, productive development when it came to making movies. They slowly started with sound, moved up to 3D films, computer generated animation, and now, have worked all the way up to today. 

    Considering the extremely fast paced evolution of communication technologies, it interested me that the evolution of motion pictures was so slow. However, the evolution of the motion picture had the same huge strides that other communication technologies often experience in their respective evolutions. They started of small in 1888 with the first motion picture. Then, in 1927, The Jazz Singer was the first motion picture to have synchronized sound. 55 years later in 1982, TRON became the first motion picture film to use computer graphic imagery or CGI, having a full fifteen minutes of the movie be entirely computer generated. Then finally in 1995, Toy Story became the first motion picture film to be entirely computer animated. With all of these achievements in motion picture history, it is no wonder that they evolved into a juggernaut in the entertainment industry and have had a positive impact on people everywhere.