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motion pictures
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zoopraxiscope
first devise to make animated pictures or movies -
motion picture camera
edison and dickson invented this camera -
"The Blacksmith Scene
Edison builds a film studio on the grounds of his laboratories in New Jersey to produce films for his kinetoscope machines. -
edison
The Holland brothers open the first kinetoscope parlor in New York City on April 14. In one year they have gross receipts of over $16,000. -
sorte
From April 1894 through February 1895, Edison 's kinetoscope and film sales exceed $177,000. -
the kiss
harles Raff and Frank Gammon buy the Jenkins-Armat phantoscope from Thomas Armat on behalf of Edison. They rename the projector " Edison's Vitascope", and it is hailed as Edison's latest invention. By selling exclusive Vitascope exhibition rights for specific territories, they make a windfall profit. -
Admiral Cigarette
The American Mutoscope Company (later renamed the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and frequently called the "Biograph Company"), marketing their own films and their new biograph projector, becomes the foremost motion picture company in the U.S. -
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the Maine
The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor gives rise to a multitude of Spanish-American War films. -
cinderella
Vaudeville theatres establish permanent relations with motion picture exhibition services. -
Episodes of the Transvaal War
The actualities (scenes of daily life), the news events (both real and reconstructed), and the worn-out dramatic and comic situations that have become the standard fare of film exhibitions, begin to bore audiences. Attendance at the showing of motion pictures begins to fall.
