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[SPEAKER_01]: On this day, August 24, 1891, Thomas Edison filed patents for the

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Canetograph was a motion picture camera, while the Canetoscope allowed one person at a time to watch short films through a viewing window.

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[SPEAKER_01]: These inventions helped move entertainment toward film as we know it today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were not movie theaters yet, but they helped prove that captured motion could become a new kind of popular experience.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also on this day, August 24, 1991, Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also on this day, August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.

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[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.