under the sponsorship of Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse named "Sallie Gardner" in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic cameras
In 1889 Thomas Edison and his staff developed the kinetograph, a camera using rolls of coated celluloid film, and the Kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flipped in sequence
William Friese-Greene was issued patent no. 10131 for his 'chronophotographic' camera. It was apparently capable of taking up to ten photographs per second using perforated celluloid film
A report on the camera was published in the British Photographic News
The first commercial exhibition of film took place at Edison's Kinetoscope peep-show parlor
in 1909, formed the Motion Picture Patents Company
Charles Jenkins invented a mechanical television system called radiovision and claimed to have transmitted the earliest moving silhouette images on
Also in 1927 The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences was formed and began an annual awards ceremony
Mickey Mouse's official birthday
The American Broadcasting Company first aired Saturday morning TV shows for children
A successful color television system began commercial broadcasting, first authorized by the FCC based on a system invented by RCA.
