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Thomas Edison and his staff create the first horizontal feed motion picture camera
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At a convention, Thomas Edison shows everybody a peephole device that shows a moving man
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Thomas Edison calls his motion picture camera a kinetograph, and calls his peephole device a kinetoscope
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Thomas Edison uses film in his devices.
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Edison makes a film studio in New Jersey, calling it,” The Black Maria”
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The Holland Brothers create the first kinetoscope parlor
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Senator Bradley forbids a film that Edison shows, because it shows a dancer and you can see her undergarments, and that is when censorship comes in
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In Richmond, Indiana, the first film is showed to an audience by Charles Francis Jenkins
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April 1894 through February 1895, Edison’s kinetoscope and film sales exceed $177,000
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W.K.L. Dickson leaves Edison's laboratories after a difference of opinion with Edison. He goes on to become one of the founders of the American Mutoscope Company, which would eventually become the Biograph Company
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The Latham’s open a small storefront theater in New York City, and on May 20 they show a projected motion picture to a paying audience
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Eugene Lauste and W.K.L. Dickson build a film projector that they call an eidoloscope
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Thomas Armat and C. Francis Jenkins patent a motion picture projector that they call the phantoscope. In September, at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, they arrange to exhibit Edison kinetoscope movies using their phantoscope projector instead of a kinetoscope
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The Lumière brothers in France invent a motion picture camera/projector that they call a Cinematograph. Using it, they shoot a film at their factory and then show the film's projected image to a scientific conference in March. On December 28 they show their projected films in the Indian Exhibition at the Grand Café in Paris to a paying audience of 33 spectators
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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 United States
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William Rock and Walter Wainwright transform a converted vacant store in New Orleans into Vitascope Hall. It becomes the first "storefront theater" in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to showing motion pictures. Admission is 10¢, because of popular demand films continually being shown through September
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Edison's Vitascope Theatre, owned by Mitchell and Moe Mark, opens in Buffalo, NY in the Ellicott Square Building. It is the first permanent venue in the United States constructed specifically to show motion pictures
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Motion pictures are introduced into both China and India
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Charles 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
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Charles Melies constructs the first movie studio that uses artificial illumination
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Biograph introduces a new tripod head that allows quick, smooth panning of the camera
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The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor gives rise to a multitude of Spanish-American War film
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Edison files a patent-infringement suit against the Biograph Company.
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Edison's lawyers visit two theater producers and warn them against exhibiting foreign films in American
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Germany produces its first film
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Vaudeville theatres establish permanent relations with motion picture exhibition services
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At the National Export Exposition in Philadelphia, Sigmund Lubin constructs the first purpose-built movie theater
