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Praxinoscope

Jun 21, 1877

Emile Reynaud placed drawing on the inside of a rotating drum, which had mirrors around a center column to produce the illusion of moving pictures.
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Development of the Zoopraxiscope

Feb 21, 1878

Eadward Muybridge succeeded in capturing motion by setting up twelve cameras on a racetrack with trip-wires connected to their shutters. A horse tripped each wire, causing each camera to take a photograph on glass plates. Muybridge then took the photos and placed them in a praxinoscope, then projecting them with a lantern.
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Zoopraxiscope

Oct 9, 1879

Created by Eadweard Muybridge, this used multiple cameras to take a series of photographs, printed them on glass discs, and then projected them with a lantern to show successive phases of movement.
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Reynaud Expands

Nov 23, 1882

Reynaud added a lantern and screen to the Praxinoscope, allowing for the projection of the moving drawings.
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Edison and Muybridge?

Feb 21, 1888

Edison declines a partnership offer from Muybridge to create a motion-picture camera by combining the Edison phonograph and the Muybridge Zoopraxiscope.
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Still Camera Patent

Sep 4, 1888

George Eastman invents the still camera with rolled photographic film rather than glass plates, calling it the Kodak camera.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventors/ss/George_Eastman.htm

First "Film"

Sep 29, 1888

Etienne-Jules Marey showed his chronophotographic, fixed-plate camera with a timed shutter at the Academy of Sciences. This was based off of his earlier experimentation with a gun-triggered exposure.
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Kinetoscope Patented

Oct 17, 1888

Edison files a caveat with the US Patents Office for the future production of the Kinetoscope, a machine that would record and reproduce objects in motion.
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Experimentation in Edison Laboratories

Period: Jun 23, 1889 to May 20, 1891

Edison charged his assistant, William Dickenson, with the development of an assignment such as the Kinetoscope. Dickenson experimented first with a photograph-printed cylinder, then settled on a strip of emulsion-coated celluloid film sheets, which were run horzontally through the machine.

Unveiling at the National Federation of Women's Clubs

May 20, 1891

A prototype, which ran film horizontally from spool to spool, centered around the shutter, which created intermittent exposures for the camera as well as intermittent glimpses for the viewer.
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Official Kinetoscope Patent

Aug 24, 1891

Edison Laboratories files patents for the Kinetograph, the camera portion, and the Kinetoscope, the viewing portion.
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Kinetoscope Completed

Jul 28, 1892

The Kinetoscope, now with vertically running film, was a wooden box with a peephole and magnifying glass at the top. Inside, a 50-foot strip of film with holes punched on the edges was moved by an electric sprocket wheel over an electric lamp and a revolving shutter.
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First Public Demonstration

May 9, 1893

The public first experienced motion picture at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
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