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| | Adam Ash: A short history of the movies, in case you need it |
 | | It is worth noting that the cinema originated, in large part, in Europe, despite the American Thomas A. Edison's later refinements to the original designs of others. |
 | | Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince produced the films Roundhay Garden Scene and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge in 1888, which were shot with a single-lens motion picture camera, in Leeds, England, and still survive in fragments today. |
 | | By the 1980s, the scene had switched to Germany, where the renegade filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, along with his colleagues Jean-Marie Straub, Daniele Huillet, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, Volker Schlondorff and numerous other young filmmakers created "Das Neue Kino," or The New German Cinema. |
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