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thomas edison staff develop a motion picture camera
Thomas Edison's assistant, W.K.L. Dickson, begins devoting himself to the "motion picture project". He and his staff develop a horizontal-feed motion picture camera. -
Thomas edison names his camera
Edison calls his motion picture camera a kinetograph, and his peephole-viewing device a kinetoscope. -
Thomas edison creates the basis for todays 35mm commercial film.gauge
this is the year when thomas edison first creates the 35mm commercial film -
thomas edison creates a film studio on the grounds of his labortories in new jersey
they build a film studio that they named the black maria that was a slang term at the time for the police patrol wagon in that time. -
The holland brothers open the first kintescope parlor
In one year they got a income of over 15,000 dollars. -
Thomas edisons kintoscope and film sales made more then 176,000 dollars.
They made that much money in 1 year just from selling kintoscopes that they sold and the film. -
charles raff and frank buy the armat on the behalf of thomas edioson
he bought them so that he could sell exclusive vitascopes exhibition rights for certain people -
The american mutoscope company eventualy started selling and making there own films
They soon became the foremost motion picture company in the whole us. -
The uss maine ship sunk in the harbor that was known as havanna harbor
Edison files an infringement case aganist the company that was know as the biograph company
