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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
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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
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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
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A report on the camera was published in the British Photographic News
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The first commercial exhibition of film took place at Edison's Kinetoscope peep-show parlor
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in 1909, formed the Motion Picture Patents Company
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Charles Jenkins invented a mechanical television system called radiovision and claimed to have transmitted the earliest moving silhouette images on
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Also in 1927 The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences was formed and began an annual awards ceremony
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Mickey Mouse's official birthday
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The American Broadcasting Company first aired Saturday morning TV shows for children
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A successful color television system began commercial broadcasting, first authorized by the FCC based on a system invented by RCA.
