anime battles By W/M/D 1877 the invention of the Praxinoscope by French inventor Charles Emile Reynaud 1878 Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion 1885 George Eastman introduces film made on a paper base instead of glass 1889 Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson develop the Kinetoscope 1894 Coin-operated Kinetoscopes appear in a New York City amusement arcade. 1895 First private screening 1905 First movie theater