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1890
Thomas Edison's assistant, W.K.L. Dickson, begins devoting himself to the "motion picture project". He and his staff develop a horizontal-feed motion picture camera. -
1891
A peephole-viewing machine is unveiled by Edison during a convention of the Federation of Women's Clubs. The motion picture in the viewing machine shows a man bowing, smiling and taking off his hat. -
1894
On June 6, in Richmond, Indiana, the inventor Charles Francis Jenkins becomes the first person to project a filmed motion picture onto a screen for an audience. -
1895
Working with Eugene Lauste and W.K.L. Dickson, the Lathams build a film projector that they call an Eidoloscope (or Pantoptikon). Because their projector uses a loop of film to absorb the shock of the film's intermittent movement, the length of film shot or projected is no longer limited to a couple of minutes -
1895
The Lumière brothers in France invent a motion picture camera/projector that they call a Cinèmatographe. Using it, they shoot a film at their factory and then show the film's projected image to a scientific conference in March. On December 28 they show their projected films in the Indian Exhibition at the Grand Café in Paris to a paying audience of 33 spectators. (Admission is 1 franc.) It is generally agreed that this day marks the official "birthday" of the movies because the Lumière's Cinèmat -
1896
Benjamin Keith books the Lumière's cinèmatographe for his vaudeville circuit in America. In his New York City theatre alone the cinèmatographe presentations are so popular they run for 23 weeks. -
1896
Charles Raff and Frank Gammon buy the Jenkins-Armat phantoscope from Thomas Armat on behalf of Edison. They rename the projector " Edison's Vitascope", and it is hailed as Edison's latest invention. By selling exclusive Vitascope exhibition rights for specific territories, they make a windfall profit. -
1896
Charles Raff and Frank Gammon buy the Jenkins-Armat phantoscope from Thomas Armat on behalf of Edison. They rename the projector " Edison's Vitascope", and it is hailed as Edison's latest invention. By selling exclusive Vitascope exhibition rights for specific territories, they make a windfall profit. Charles and Emile Pathè found a company called "Pathé-Frères" in Paris. By the next decade they will become the largest producer of films in the world. A French magician, Georges Méliès, become -
1897
The American Mutoscope Company (later renamed the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and frequently called the "Biograph Company"), marketing their own films and their new biograph projector, becomes the foremost motion picture company in the U.S. -
1984
The Kinetoscope Exhibition Company (owned by Otway Latham, Grey Latham, Samuel Tilden, and Enoch Rector) opens in downtown, New York City. Six large–capacity Kinetoscopes (able to handle up to 150 feet of film) are set up, each one showing one, one–minute round of "The Leonard–Cushing Fight" that the company had staged and filmed at Edison's "Black Maria" studio in West Orange, NJ. These one–minute films are the longest films made to date for Edison's Kinetoscope. -
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