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W.K.L dickson started working on a motion picture camera.
Thomas Edison's assistant W.K.L dickson started working on the motion picture project and made the horrizontal feed motion picture camera. -
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The history of movies
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Edison calls his motioin picture the Kinetograph.
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Edison builds a film studio called The Black Maria
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The Holland brothers open the first kinetoscope theater in nyc.
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Edison's film and kinetoscope sales exceed $177,000
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In Paris a fire breaks out at the Bazar de la Charité's temporary cinema killing 121 people
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USS Maine in Havana Harbor sinks
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Vaudeville theatres establish permanent relations with motion picture exhibition services