-
Thomas Edison assistant W.K.L Dickson begins devoting to the motion picture project and develop a horizontal-feed motion picture camera.
-
Edison made a machine that was a motion picture camera called the kinetograph, and his peephole-viewing device called the kinetoscope.
-
Edison put use of 11/2- inch film in his vertical feed motion picture camera establishes the basis for today’s standard 35mm commercial film gauge.
-
Edison build a film studio on the ground of his laboratories in New Jersey to produce film for his kinetoscope.
-
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. Senator Bradley forbids the projection of one of Edison film the first case of censorship in the moving picture industry.
-
On June 6 Francis Jenkins become the first person to project a filmed motion picture onto a screen for an audience.
-
From April 1894 through February 1895 Edison kinetoscope and his film sales exceed $1770.
-
Charles Raff and Frank Gammon buy the Jenkins-Armat phantoscope from Thomas Armat on behalf of Edison they rename the projector “Edison Vita scope”.
-
The American Mutoscope company marketing their own films and their new biograph projector become the foremast motion picture company in the U.S.
Plan projects on a visual timeline
Map milestones, phases, deadlines, and key events in one place so the sequence is easier to see and share. Timetoast is a timeline maker for work, school, research, and stories.