Eastman Kodak (the country’s only manufacturer of film stock) agrees to sell film stock only to the members of the MPPC.
Porter’s The Great Train Robbery, often credited as the first American narrative film of significant length (11 minutes).ġ904 Marcus Loew founds the theater chain that will grow into Loew’s Theatres, which will last until 2006, when it merges with AMC Theaters under the name of the latter.ġ906 Biograph opens its own movie studio in New York City.ġ908 Edison spearheads the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), an amalgamation of the nine leading U.S. However, American Mutoscope’s Biograph projector offers superior image quality.ġ899 American Mutoscope becomes the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.ġ903 The Edison Company produces Edwin S. The American Mutoscope Company is founded, becoming the first American company devoted exclusively to the production and exhibition of films.ġ896 The Edison Company’s projection system, the Vitascope, is used for its first commercial exhibition, making it clear that projection is the future of film exhibition. Similar parlors are soon opened in Chicago and San Francisco.ġ895 A new device, the Eidoloscope, is used for the first commercial screening of a projected motion picture in the United States.
The first public kinetoscope parlor opens in New York City, featuring 10 machines, each showing a different short film. At the same exposition, Edison exhibits the first completed kinetoscope film, made at Edison’s “Black Maria,” the first American movie studio, in West Orange, New Jersey.ġ894 Edison makes Fred Ott’s Sneeze, which becomes the first copyrighted motion picture. 1878 Eadweard Muybridge uses multiple cameras to produce a series of still photographs that can be combined in sequence to show a horse in motion.ġ888 Thomas Edison announces his plans to develop a device for recording and displaying motion pictures.ġ889 Edison’s planned device is formally named the “kinetoscope.”ġ891 First public demonstrations of prototype kinetoscopes, single-viewer machines that allow the viewing of brief films inside the unit.ġ893 Muybridge exhibits films of animals in motion to a paying audience at the World’s Columbian Exposition (World’s Fair) in Chicago.
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