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Film began in the 1890s, when motion picture cameras were invented and film production companies started to be established.
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In 1889 or 1890, Dickson filmed his first experimental Kinetoscope trial film it was first motion picture ever produced on photographic film in the United States.
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In 1892 Edison and Dickson invented a motion picture camera
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The Lumiere's second major invention was the first commercially successful potable motion picture camera.
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On 25 March 1925, Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store in London.
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In 1927 motion pictures started to use sound
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Philo T. Farnsworth was the first to successfully demonstrate the principle, in his lab in San Francisco
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John Walson (1915-1993)
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A successful color television system began commercial broadcasting, first authorized by the FCC.
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Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented and built the first electronic camera using a charge-coupled device image sensor in 1975.
