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first devise to make animated pictures or movies
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edison and dickson invented this camera
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Edison builds a film studio on the grounds of his laboratories in New Jersey to produce films for his kinetoscope machines.
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The Holland brothers open the first kinetoscope parlor in New York City on April 14. In one year they have gross receipts of over $16,000.
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From April 1894 through February 1895, Edison 's kinetoscope and film sales exceed $177,000.
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harles Raff and Frank Gammon buy the Jenkins-Armat phantoscope from Thomas Armat on behalf of Edison. They rename the projector " Edison's Vitascope", and it is hailed as Edison's latest invention. By selling exclusive Vitascope exhibition rights for specific territories, they make a windfall profit.
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The American Mutoscope Company (later renamed the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and frequently called the "Biograph Company"), marketing their own films and their new biograph projector, becomes the foremost motion picture company in the U.S.
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The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor gives rise to a multitude of Spanish-American War films.
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Vaudeville theatres establish permanent relations with motion picture exhibition services.
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The actualities (scenes of daily life), the news events (both real and reconstructed), and the worn-out dramatic and comic situations that have become the standard fare of film exhibitions, begin to bore audiences. Attendance at the showing of motion pictures begins to fall.
