1890
AB
Dick markets first mimeograph
The
zipper was invented
Edison
takes control of North American Phonograph Co
rotogravure
press first used
1891
Edison
unveils prototype Kinetograph camera and Kinetoscope (prototype
nickelodeon) movie viewer
the
first telephoto lens is attached to the camera
1892
Max
Skladanowsky of Berlin makes one of first motion pictures using
Kodak film and his Bioscop
Edison
and William Dickson invent peep-show Kinetoscope
Georges
Demeny patents Phonoscope
4-colour
rotary press used
portable
typewriters invented
Eastman
Kodak Company replaces Eastman Company
1893
Coca-Cola
trademark registered
Edison
receives patents for Kinetograph movie camera and Kinetoscope peepshow
device
Edison
& Dickson launch studio called the 'Black Maria'
Dickson
deposits first Edison films for registration under US copyright
law (earliest surviving film is Fred Ott's Sneeze of January 1904)
1894
Marconi
invents the wireless telegraph
Marey
demonstrates the first slow-motion camera
Holland
Bros open Kinetoscope parlour in New York
Edison
and associates Norman Raff, Frank Gammon and Erastus Benson form
Kinetoscope Company
Kinetoscope
parlour opened in Sydney, Australia (148 Pitt Street) and London,
England.
1895
Max
Skladanowsky projects world's first public movie on a screen at
Berlin's Wintergarten amusement hall, supposedly two months before
Lumière brothers' first public showing in Paris
August
& Louis Lumiere gain a patent in France for Cinématographe
movie device and give first public showing in Paris of La Sortie
des Usines Lumière. (Lumières said to have held private
showings several months prior to public showing)
Kellogg's
Corn Flakes launched
Kinetoscope
Company introduces Kinetophone (kinetoscope and phonograph)
Woodville
Latham creates Eidoloscope projector
Dickson
leaves Edison and forms American Mutoscope Company - later American
Mutoscope & Biograph (AM&B) - in partnership with Herman
Casler, Elias Koopman & Henry Marvin
C
Francis Jenkins & Thomas Armat unsuccessfully promote Phantoscope
projector (later bought by Edison because he couldn't perfect his)
1896
Lumieres'
Cinematographe projector used for exhibitions in London, Vienna,
Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Malmo, Bucharest, Turin, Copenhagen,
Rome, Belgrade, St Petersburg, Mumbai and Helsinki
Pathe
Bros found film company
Robert
Paul develops Animatograph projector in UK
The
Soldier's Tale is first dramatic production in UK
Edison
Manufacturing Co acquires rights to Phantoscope (changes name to
Vitascope and claims that it's his)
Vitascope
used to project hand-coloured motion pictures at Koster & Bial's
Music Hall, New York on April 23rd
first
public projection in Australia (at Melbourne Opera House)
Lumiere
Bros start exhibiting in New York
Charles
Webster & Edmund Kuhn form International Film Co
first
film shot in Sweden by Skladanowsky
first
public exhibition in Denmark
first
films shown in Shanghai teahouse, Xu Garden, by unidentified Frenchman
Oskar
Messter invents Maltese Cross shutter device for film projectors
First
film shown in Australia, Passengers Alighting from Ferry 'Brighton'
at Manly screened at Salon Lumiere at 237 Pitt Street in Sydney
Melbourne
Cup race filmed for first time
Messter opens indoor film studio on Berlin's Friedrichstrasse and
takes over Berlin's first cinema at 21 Unter den Linden
Henry Ford builds Quadricycle
Underwood
model permits typists to see what they are typing
first
US cinema opens June 26 in New Orleans, La. called 'Vitascope Hall'
with 400 seats.
William
Selig founds Mutuscope & Film Co, later Selig Polyscope
Georges
Melies forms Star Film Co in Paris
American
Mutoscope Co launches Biograph projector
1897
James
Ricalton shows Edison films in Shanghai and other Chinese cities
(first public films shown in Beijing probably in 1902)
International
Film Co ceases production
James
Blackton & Albert Smith found American Vitograph
Melies
opens studio in Paris called Star Films
first
commercial exhibition in Osaka
Lumiere's catalogue boasts 1,600 titles
Cecil Hepworth's Animated Photography text
Lumieres
sell US subsidiary
Pathé
Freres goes public as La Compagnie générale des phonographes,
cinématographes et pellicules Pathé Frères
1898
Deutsche
Mutoskop & Biograph film production co established in Berlin
Edison
launches 'Patent Wars' by filing first of many patent infringement
suits claiming that the Kinetograph camera has been pirated
Gaumont
Co formed in UK as subsidiary of France's Gaumont studio
New
York State passes law against misleading advertising
Vitascope
Co ceases production
1899
prototype
magnetic sound recording
Fred
Wills produces pro-immigration films for Queensland state government,
claimed to be first government documentary
American
Marconi Company (forerunner of RCA) founded
Hepworth
founds Hepwix production co
Paul
opens studio in London
Melies'
L'Affair Dreyfus runs for 12 minutes
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