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Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph in 1877
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Edison commissioned Dickson, a young laboratory assistant, to invent a motion-picture camera in 1888.
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Starting in 1894, Kinetoscopes were marketed commercially through the firm of Raff and Gammon for $250 to $300 apiece.
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Their cinématographe, which functioned as a camera and printer as well as a projector, ran at the economical speed of 16 frames per second. It was given its first commercial demonstration on Dec. 28, 1895.
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La Voyage Dans la Lune The first film to achieve international distribution, "Le Voyage dans la lune" was an enormous popular success.
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The Great Train Robbery (1903), directed by Edwin S. Porter e industry’s first spectacular box-office success
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Star Film one of the world’s largest producers (an American branch was opened in 1903)
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La Conquête du pole (“The Conquest of the Pole,” 1912), Méliès treated the frame of the film as the proscenium arch of a theatre stage, never once moving his camera or changing its position within a scene.
