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thomas edisons assistant begins devoting him to the "motion picture project"
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Edison calls his motion picture camera a kinetograph, and his peephole-viewing device a kinetoscope.
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edison’s use of 1 1 / 2 - inch film in his vertical-feed motion picture camera establishes the basis for today's standard 35mm commercial film gauge.
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Edison builds a film studio on the grounds of his laboratories in New Jersey to produce films
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The Holland brothers open the first kinetoscope parlor in New York City on April 14
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Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S.
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In Germany, Oskar Messter had been involved in film-making from
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thomas edison invented the motion picture camera