| 1895 |
 Chronomedia index
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| February 13 |
Lumière's Cinématographe is patented in France. |
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| February |
 Birt Acres
[right] and R W Paul start work on a cine camera using film stock from the European
Blair Camera Company. |
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| February |
Jean Acmé Leroy, formerly a collaborator of Le Prince, presents a showing of his
'Marvelous Cinematograph' to a paying audience at Clinton, New Jersey. |
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| March 22 |
Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate their film system to the Société
d’Encouragement à l’Industrie Nationale at 44 rue de Rennes, Paris, screening their film
La Sortie des Ouvriers de l’Usine Lumière. |
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| spring |
Edison begins marketing Kinetophones that use mechanical linkage to synchronise
his phonograph and kinetoscope to produce sound pictures, still in a peepshow presentation. The
viewer listens to the sound through two rubber tubes. |
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| April 2 |
W K L Dickson leaves the Edison Company. He has been advising Woodville Latham about
film matters, including image projection. |
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Louis Lumière makes the first French dramatic/comedy film, L’Arroseur arrosé (The waterer
watered), using his gardener, M Clerc, and his apprentice, a boy called Duval, as the performers. A
scene from the film was used in the generic poster for Cinématographe Lumière performances [right]. |
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| May 20 |
First specifically incorporated film company, Lamda Company, shows a four-minute
boxing film to a paying audience using its wide-film Eidoloscope projector, invented by
Eugène Lauste at 153 Broadway, New York. According to W K L Dickson,
the film path includes a loop to reduce stress on the film. |
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| August |
Birt Acres gives public demonstrations, using his own film
equipment, at Barnet, Hertfordshire. |
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| September |
C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat demonstrate their Phantascope film projector at
the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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 After
Jenkins and Armat dissolve their partnership, Armat sells the rights in the Phantascope to the
Kinetoscope Company. Edison insists that the device should be called the Edison Vitascope.
[right; source: Smithsonian Institution]. |
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| November 1 |
 In Berlin,
Max and Eugene Skladanowsky begin a series of public demonstrations of their Bioskop films [left]. |
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| November 8 |
X-rays are discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen. |
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| December 18 |
Birt Acres' assistant, Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, gives a film screening at South
Mimms, Hertfordshire. |
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| December |
American Mutoscope Company is formed by W K L Dickson, Herman Casler, Elias Koopman
and Henry Norton Marvin. |
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| December 28 |
Lumière Brothers (and father) give a public demonstration of their films in the
Salon Indien at the Grand Café, 14 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris. An audience of 33 people,
including Georges Méliès, pay one franc each for admission. The Lumières refuse offers to buy
copies of their equipment. |
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