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Johann H. Schulze, a German physicist, discovers that silver salts turn dark when exposed to light.
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British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move.
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Etienne Marey in France develops a camera, shaped like a gun, that can take twelve pictures per second.
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George Eastman introduces the lightweight, inexpensive Kodak camera, using film wound on rollers.
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Warner Bros. production company is established.
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Motion pictures for films were produced without sound.
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Mickey Mouse is introduced in the cartoon Steamboat Willie.
