| 1892 |
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| March 5 |
Frenchman Georges Démeny (1850-1917), an assistant to Jules-Etienne Marey, patents
the Phonoscope. |
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| October |
Introduction of 35mm film in a Kinetoscope movie camera with vertical pull-down
built by W K Laurie Dickson at Edison Laboratories. The film has four rectangular perforations per
frame and a frame area of one inch by three-quarters of an inch, creating an aspect ratio of 4:3.
The width is Eastman Kodak’s standard 70mm photographic film slit in two. The standard, although
improved on, remains the basis for theatrical motion pictures. |
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| December |
Construction begins of Edison's 'Black Maria'
film studio at West Orange, New Jersey. It is partially open to the elements and built on a turntable
so that it can catch the sun. |
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| l |
Emile Reynaud’s Pantomimes lumineuses is demonstrated. |
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| l |
French engineer Léon Bouly (1862-1932) designs a film camera which he calls
the cinématographe. |
à 1893 |
| l |
Théodore Puskás files for
patents in Paris and Budapest on a news service to be distributed by telephone. |
à 1894 |
