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Camera Inveted
Thomas Edison assistant W.K.L Dickson begins devoting to the motion picture project and develop a horizontal-feed motion picture camera. -
Kinetscope
Edison made a machine that was a motion picture camera called the kinetograph, and his peephole-viewing device called the kinetoscope. -
Film Gauge
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. -
Film Studio
Edison build a film studio on the ground of his laboratories in New Jersey to produce film for his kinetoscope. -
Parlor created
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. -
First Movie
On June 6 Francis Jenkins become the first person to project a filmed motion picture onto a screen for an audience. -
Sales
From April 1894 through February 1895 Edison kinetoscope and his film sales exceed $1770. -
Vita Scope
Charles Raff and Frank Gammon buy the Jenkins-Armat phantoscope from Thomas Armat on behalf of Edison they rename the projector “Edison Vita scope”. -
Formast motion picture company
The American Mutoscope company marketing their own films and their new biograph projector become the foremast motion picture company in the U.S.
