| 1893 |
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| February 1 |
 Edison completes construction of the Black Maria studio [right] |
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| February 2 |
 Fred Ott's Sneeze [left], the first film for which a copyright claim is made, is said to have been filmed this day at Edison's Black Maria studio. |
> 1894 |
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Edison plans to launch the Kinetoscope at the World’s Fair in Chicago but the equipment is not ready in time. |
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| May 9 |
First demonstration of the Edison/Dickson Kinetoscope in public is given at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in New York. |
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| August |
First Edison films are deposited for copyright at the Library of Congress in the name of W K L Dickson. |
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| November 19 |
New York World Sunday newspaper publishes the first colour supplement. |
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Eadweard Muybridge produces Zoöpraxiscope discs based on his pictures of animals in motion, a process he calls Zoöpraxography. |
The quest for home video: Muybridge Zoöpraxography |
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Léon Bouly is granted a French patent (no 219350) for the Cinématographe Bouly, an improved version of the previous year's device. The patent is later sold to Antoine Lumière. |
The camera is kept by the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris.
> 1894 |
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Thomas Henry Blair loses control of the photographic company he founded, following disputes over financing and losing a patent case brought by Eastman. Blair moves to England and sets up the European Blair Camera Company, with a factory at Foot's Cray, Kent and office in Holborn, London. |
> 1896 |
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Telephony service begins in the Osaka-Kobe area of Japan using two manual switching systems and 224 Gower-Bell telephone units. |
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Emile Berliner begins marketing disc gramophones in the US. |
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