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Cinema History
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Johann H. Schulze
A German Physicist finds out that silver salts turn dark when exposed to light. -
Carl Scheele
A Swedish chemist shows that the changes in the color of the silver salts could be made permanent through the use of chemicals -
Nicephore Niepce
A French inventor produces a permanent image by coating a metal plate with a light-sensitive chemical and exposing the plate to light for about eight hours. -
Eadweard Muybridge
British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move. -
Etienne Marey
Etienne Marey in France develops a camera, shaped like a gun, that can take twelve pictures per second. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison displays his Kinetoscope at the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago and receives patents for his movie camera, the Kinetograph, and his peepshow device. -
Thomas Edison
Edison files the first of many patent infringement suits, claiming that others are using equipment based on his Kinetograph camera. -
The First Cartoon
The first animated cartoon is produced -
9000 Movie Theatres in America
There are about 9,000 movie theaters in the United States. The typical film is only a single reel long, or ten- to twelve minutes in length, and the performers were anonymous -
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures is founded; Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky will distribute their films through Paramount.
