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George Eastman begins experimenting with celluloid roll film
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson develops the Kinetophonograph while working for Thomas Alva Edison
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Edison's machines debut at the Chicago World's Fair
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Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumi?re and Louis Jean Lumi?re develop the Cin?matographe, a portable, crank operated camera
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The Lumi?re brothers shoot their first film, Workers Leaving the Lumi?re Factory, the first movie theatre opens in Paris on 28 December, and the Lumi?res show several films there
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The first public showing of a motion picture to a paying audience occurs on 23 April in New York, featuring Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope
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Cecil Hepworth shoots Rescued by Rove
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Georges M?li?s shoots A Trip to the Moon, marking the first significant use of both narrative and special effects in a film
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Edwin S. Porter shoots The Great Train Robbery, which features the infamous sequence of a train racing towards the camera which causes viewers to believe that the train is actually coming off the screen towards them