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Brendan Cain COM11400 Ms. Carlo Speech #1 Outline Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about James Stuart Blackton revolutionized the film industry. Thesis Statement: Blackton’s first stop motion film revolutionized the film industry by helping grow the movie industry and inspiring new types of movies and services. Introduction: I. Attention-Getter: Blackton interviewed Thomas Edison in 1895; this created an interest in film for Blackton. A year later Blackton and his partner Albert E. Smith created their own film company called Vitagraph. A year after Vitagraph was formed they produced their first movie. Today the movie industry is a multi-billion dollar industry in the U.S. and globally. The Motion Picture Association of America reported that in 2013 globally that $35.9 billion was made in ticket sales. II. Credibility Statement: I’ve researched James Stuart Blackton and the movie industry over the past two weeks and have gained significant information from credible sources. III. Relating to the Audience: I can guess almost everyone, if not everyone has seen a movie once in his or her life. We grew up as children watching movies to laugh and learn life lessons from. IV. Thesis Statement: Blackton’s first stop motion film revolutionized the film industry by helping grow the movie industry and inspiring new types of movies and services. Transition: The first thing I’ll discuss is how Blackton created increased interest for movies. Body: I. Blackton’s stop motion filmShow MoreRelated The History of Animation Essay5606 Words   |  23 PagesThe History of Animation Persistence of vision was discovered in the early 1800s. Our eye and brain retain a visual impression for about 1/30th of a second. Persistence of vision prevents us from noticing that a motion picture screen is dark about half the time, and that a television image is just one bright, fast, discrete dot sweeping the screen. Motion pictures show one new frame (still picture of the movie clip) every 1/24th of a second and the same frame is shown three times during this