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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce 1827 First still photograph taken
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1832 Joseph Plateau and sons introduce the Phenakistoscope.
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1834 Another illusion toy - the Zoetrope was introduced by William George Horner
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1877 Emile Reynaud introduces the Praxinoscope
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1878 Eadweard Muybridge achieves success after five years of trying to capture movement
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In 1885, two men named George Eastman and William H. Walker developed the very first reel of film.
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1891, Edison and Dickson have their Kinetograph camera and Kinetoscope viewing box ready for patenting and demonstration.
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1895 Dorothea Lange One of the most famous film screenings in history took place on
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1896 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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1915 American director Julia Crawford Ivers becomes the first woman general manager of a Hollywood studio, Bosworth, Inc.
