motion picture history

  • thomas edisons assistant begins devoting him to the "motion picture project"

  • Edison calls his motion picture camera a kinetograph, and his peephole-viewing device a kinetoscope.

    Edison calls his motion picture camera a kinetograph, and his peephole-viewing device a kinetoscope.
  • edison’s use of 1 1 / 2 - inch film in his vertical-feed motion picture camera establishes the basis for today's standard 35mm commercial film gauge.

    edison’s use of 1 1 / 2 - inch film in his vertical-feed motion picture camera establishes the basis for today's standard 35mm commercial film gauge.
  • Edison builds a film studio on the grounds of his laboratories in New Jersey to produce films

  • The Holland brothers open the first kinetoscope parlor in New York City on April 14

  • Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S.

  • In Germany, Oskar Messter had been involved in film-making from

  • thomas edison invented the motion picture camera