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motion pictures
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motion pictures was invented in 1890
the very first motion pictiure was made in1867 by william lincoln
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the first movie was invented
the very first movie was invented on the same exact day its called
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the motion pictures spread
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. -
Edison make a better tv
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. -
kinescope opens
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. Senator Bradley forbids the projection of one of Edison 's films that shows the dancer Carmencita's undergarments as she dances. This is the first case of censorship in the moving picture industry. On June 6, in Richmond, Indiana, the inventor Charles Francis Jenkins becomes the first person to project a filmed motion picture onto a screen for an audience. -
charles buy phantoscope
Charles 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. Charles and Emile Pathè found a company called "Pathé-Frères" in Paris. By the next decade they will become the largest producer of films in the world. A French magician, Georges Méliès, becomes -
spanish war film
The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor gives rise to a multitude of Spanish-American War films. Edison files a patent-infringement suit against the Biograph Company. Edison 's lawyers visit two theater producers and warn them against exhibiting foreign films in America. Germany produces its first film. -
theatres establishment
Vaudeville theatres establish permanent relations with motion picture exhibition services. Biograph introduces a new tripod head that allows quick, smooth panning of the camera. Although the vast majority of films still consist of a single shot, a few multi-shot films begin to be included in the catalogues of film companies. At the National Export Exposition in Philadelphia, Sigmund (or "Siegmund") Lubin constructs the first purpose-built movie theater. In Paris, Ms. Alice Guy is named head -
televisions today
televisions today are high qualifyed HD televisions
