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Étienne-Jules Marey, a french physiologist, invented a chronophotographic gun. A camera shaped like a rifle that photograped 12 images a second.
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George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin, American Inventors, invented a sensitized celluloid base roll. A photographic fill to replace the glass plates in use. These rolls are still used today.
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Louis Aimè Augustin Le Prince created the first motion picture film. Created on paper rolls. About 25k.
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George Eastman, an American inventor, his celluloid base roll became commercially available. The roll was used in every film. The roll still can still be used today.
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The kinetoscope, designed by the work of Muybridge Marey, and Eastmen. William k.l. Dickson finished work on a motion picture camera. He finished a motion pictured camera, viewing machine, it was called the Kinetoscope.
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Thomas Edision built a motioned-pictured studio near his laboratory. The labatory was dubbed the " Black Maria" by his staff.
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Thomas Edision held the first public exhibition of films. Using his Kineotograph at Brookyln Institute. Only one person at a time could view at a time.
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Brothers from France, Auguste, Louis Lumiere designed aa lightweight hand held motion pictured camera .The camera they built was the Cinematographe.
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In Britain, Birt Acres and Robert W Paul developed their own film projector. The projector was called the Theatrograph. Later known as the Animatograph.
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In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat.Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope.
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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.
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A trip to the moon is released. Marking the first science fiction film. Innovating use of special effects.
