Summary
Later, clever inventors made a new material called plastic that could do the same job.
This new plastic helped make the first movies shine on the screen.
Key Points
3 points1
Elephant ivory was once used to make billiard balls.
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Plastic called celluloid replaced ivory for making balls.
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Celluloid was also used to create early movie film.
New Words to Learn
4 wordselephant tusks
the long, pointy teeth of an elephant
billiard
a game where you hit balls on a table with a stick
celluloid
a type of early plastic that was used to make movie pictures
cinema
places where people watch movies
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