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As this section evolves, it will introduce at least a few dozen leading figures behind film, television, and Hollywood along with the cultural transformation that these phonomenons represent. People listed may include studio pioneers, inventors, and a few early box office sensations.

• Charlie Chaplin -
  
  
• William Kennedy Dickson -
  
  
• Thomas Alva Edison -
  
  
• Philo Taylor Farnsworth - inventor of electronic television (details later).
  
  
• Samuel Goldwyn -
  
  
• D. W. Griffith -
  
  
• Carl Laemmle -
  
  
• Jesse L. Lasky -
  
  
• Louis Lumiere -
  
  
• Louis B. Mayer -
  
  
• Baby Marie Osborne -
  
  
• Edwin Stanton Porter -
  
  
• Jack Valenti -
  
  
• Mr. and Mrs. Horace H. Wilcox -
  
  
• Adolph Zukor -

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