History Timeline

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  • Kinetograph

    Kinetograph
    The Kinetograph is the world's first motion-picture camera, developed in 1890 by Thomas Edison and William Dickson. It was an electricity powered and worked with celluloid film, which was advanced through the camera via a system of sprockets.

  • Kinetoscope

    Kinetoscope
    The Kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device, and the first to utilize sequentia images that were printed on a strip of preforated, flexible, photographic film driven by sprockets. The Inventor of the Kinetoscope was Thomas Edison.

  • The First Kinetoscope parlor

    The First Kinetoscope parlor
    The first Kinetoscope parlor, was owned by the Holland Brothers. It was opened on April 14, 1894, in New York. Five machines were placed in a row. Each customer could view the film's for a total of 25 cents. Other Kinetoscope parlors soon open around the United States.