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First still photograph taken, using a glass plate technique Claude Niepce's photograph the View from a Window at Le Gras took nearly eight hours to expose.
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Joseph Plateau creates this first illusion toy. Pictures on one disc viewed through slots in the other, appeared to move when the two were spun and viewed in a mirror.
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Etienne Jules Marey.\, creates a machine that allows you to pull a lever and take 12 pictures at a time. This was invented to help him study the flight of birds.
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George Eastman devises a still camera which produces photographs on sensitised paper which he named Kodak.
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Etienne Marey builds a box type moving picture camera which uses an intermittent mechanism and strips of paper film.
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Thomas Edison began experimenting with adapting the phonograph and tried in vain to make rows of tiny photographs on similar cylinders.
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Reynaud exhibits a much larger version of his Praxinoscope.
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Edison Travels to Paris and views Marey's camera which uses flexible film. Dickson then aquired some Eastman Kodak film stock and begins work on a new type of camera.
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Edison and Dickson have their Kinetograph camera and Kinetoscope viewing box ready for patenting and demonstration.
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Using his projecting Praxhinoscope, Reynaud holds the first public exhibitions of motion pictures.
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Edison and Dickson build a studio pn the ground of Edison's laboratories in New York, to produce films for their kinetoscope.
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The Wizord of OZ. First film to use cmaera. This amazed millions of people everywhere.