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kinetograph
The world's first motion-picture camera, developed in 1890 by American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and his assistant and protégé, William K. L. Dickson. It was electrically powered and worked with celluloid film, which was advanced through the camera via a system of sprockets. -
the inevention the kinetoscope
The Kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device, and the first to utilize sequential images printed on a strip of perforated, flexible, photographic film driven by sprockets and an intermittent movement. A product of the Thomas A. ... A San Francisco Kinetoscope parlor in 1894 and was invented byThomas Edison -
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès began his career as a magician. After seeing the Lumière brothers' films in 1895, he became a filmmaker and made over 500 short films between 1896 and 1913. -
editing
During the spring of 1899, 120 years ago, Méliès filmed and exhibited Le Portrait Mystérieuxadvertised in his Complete Catalogue of Genuine and Original “Star” Films (1905) as “une grande nouveauté photographique”