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The creation
in the path of the work of Eadweard Muybridge, Étienne-Jules Marey, and George Eastman, Thomas Edison employee William Kennedy Dickson completes work on a motion-picture camera and a viewing machine called the Kinetoscope. -
The Bet
Eadweard Muybridge to settle a bet on whether a running horse ever had all four of its feet off the ground. Muybridge successfully photographed a horse in fast motion using of 12 cameras triggered by trip wire -
Kinetoscope
the first Kinetoscope parlor was created. The use of the Kinetoscope was a series of quick shot photos giving the illusion of a real moving person or object -
Sound
Thomas Edison and Eadweard Muybridge discuss adding sound to moving pictures. Edison begins his own experiments. -
Presentation of kinetoscope
The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope takes place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor in New York City. -
lumiere brothers
lumiere brothers created the first actual theater where movies little short clips would be shown that were in range of 30 to 60 seconds -
Death in paris
A total of 125 people die during a film screening at the Charity Bazaar in Paris after a curtain catches on fire from the ether used to fuel the projector lamp. -
The Great Train Robbery
The first epic movie that started it all happend in 1903. The Great Train Robbery consited of 14 scenes and lasted about 12 minutes -
Nickelodeon Theatre
Nickelodeon Theaters were created on only chared a nickel for admission -
MPPC
The MPPC was created to practicly give Edison all power or (monopoly)all controle) of the theatre actions -
Bigger Break
By 1910 the viewers rate at the nickelodeon theatre has more than doubled -
Big Break
By 1910 the Nickelodeon Theatre was atracting 26-million people every week
