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Edison unveiled a peephole veiwing machine
A peephole-viewing machine is unveiled by Edison during a convention of the Federation of Women's Clubs. The motion picture in the viewing machine shows a man bowing, smiling and taking off his hat. Edison calls his motion picture camera a kinetograph, and his peephole-viewing device a kinetoscope. He prepares to patent both devices, but forgets to apply for overseas patents. -
1 1/2 inch film
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 -
builds film studios
Edison builds a film studio on the grounds of his laboratories in New Jersey to produce films for his kinetoscope machines. The studio is called "The Black Maria", a slang term for a police patrol wagon that the studio is said to resemble.