Olsen forms Olsen's Film Factory
- first film is Pigeons & Seagulls
Carl Laemmle opens his first nickelodeon
in Chicago and later this same year opens Laemmle Film Service
to get in on the film exchange 'boom'
Offset press invented
Film Exchange 'boom' hits with
a rush to open exchanges in as many cities as possible to supply
nickelodeons and theaters with film rentals.
Atelier Apollo founded in Finland
First Victor Victrola gramophone
used
Eugene Lauste patents a sound-on-film process
in London.
First US animated cartoon film
copyrighted
Fessenden invents wireless telephone
Harry
Aiken and John Freuler start
Western Film Exchange in Freuler's real estate office.
International Radio Telegraphic
Convention in Berlin adopts SOS as standard
Nordisk Films Kompagni founded
in Denmark by Ole Olsen
First experimental sound-on-film
motion picture used
