| 1900 |
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| January 1 |
Net Book Agreement, a voluntary arrangement by which UK booksellers will only sell books
at prices determined by the publishers (on pain of cessation of supply for contravention), comes into force. |
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| February |
Eastman Kodak introduces the Brownie amateur photographic still camera. It costs
$1.00 and rolls of film, taking images 2¼ inches (57mm) square, cost 15 cents each. In the first
year 150,000 cameras are shipped. |
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| August 25 |
A paper by Constantin Perskyi at the International Electricity Congress in Paris
describes an apparatus employing the magnetic properties of selenium and referred to as 'television'.
This is probably the first use of the word. |
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| August 31 |
Coca-Cola goes on sale in the UK. |
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| September 13 |
First Australian dramatic film, Soldiers of the Cross, made by Herbert
Booth of the Salvation Army, is premièred. |
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| November 30 |
Nederlandse Bioscope Maatschappij puts on the first Indonesian film show in Batavia. |
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French film productions start to exceed 10 minutes’ running time: Pathé's
production of Aladin (Aladdin) is 755 feet long, running 12½ minutes; Georges Méliès'
productions of La Rêve de Noël (Christmas Dream) is 520 feet (nine minutes), L'Affaire
Dreyfus is 240 metres (13 minutes), Jeanne d'Arc is 813 feet long, running 13½ minutes. |
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Close-ups first intercut with other shots in Arthur Melbourne Cooper's Grandma's
Reading Glasses, made at St Albans, England, distributed by G A Smith. Cecil Hepworth uses slow
motion The Eccentric Dancer, a close-up of his own head in The Egg-laying Man and reverse
motion in The Bathers, the second half of the film reversing the first half. |
 Grandma's Reading
Glasses can be viewed by educational users and researchers at
screenonline |
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 Warwick Trading Company builds a film studio for G A Smith at St Anne's Well Gardens,
Furze Hill, Hove at the start of a two-year contract. It replaces the temporary arrangements in the
Pump House at the Gardens, which Smith has used since 1897. In the three years since starting production
in 1897, G A Smith has made £2,000 profit from the medium. |
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Warwick Journal is started as a regular newsreel by Charles Urban for Warwick
Trading Co, London. |
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Pathé opens an office in London. |
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‘Chrono de Poche’ portable camera using 15mm wide film stock and a
single central perforation is introduced in France by Gaumont. |
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Auguste Baron is granted a US patent for his sound
film synchronisation system. |
à 1908 |
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Demonstration of 35mm optical sound recording by the German inventor, Ruhmer. |
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First recorded children’s cinema matinée in UK is held at Mickleover, Derbyshire. |
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Paris Exposition includes a large number of media innovations, including
Telegraphone—the first steel wire magnetic recorder, by the Danish inventor Valdemar
Poulsen—which wins the Grand Prix. Raoul Grimoin-Sanson demonstrates his Cineorama
cinema-in-the-round system using 10 70mm projectors. |
see also 1903 |
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Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre performances are held in the rue de Paris as part of the
Paris Exposition. The sound film system, developed by Clément-Maurice
and Henri Lioret, roughly synchronises film with cylinder recordings (Lioretographe). Among French
theatrical stars filmed are Sarah Bernhardt
and Coquelin in the duel scene from Cyrano de Bergerac. The
films are subsequently taken on a European tour, organised by
Félix Mesguich. |
The 1952 film Cinéma parlant includes some of the
films |
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First advertising film made in Uruguay: Oliver, Juncal 108, directed
by Félix Oliver for the family retail business. |
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Radio first used in warfare during Boer War. |
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Show of Lumière films is staged at Dakar, Sénégal. |
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Anglo-American Tobacco Company of Shanghai sponsors free film shows in Korea;
patrons surrender cigarette coupons for admission. |
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Shah of Persia has a private showing of films at Royal Palace in Tehran, arranged
by Mirza Ebrahim Khan. |
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American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) takes over its parent, American Bell Company. |
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In Japan 16 public telephone offices are opened for use by the public. |
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British book trade introduces the Net Book Agreement, regulating prices. |
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Hachette opens bookstalls on the Paris Métro. |
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Circulation of The Daily Mail in the UK reaches a million copies a day. |
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Daily Express newspaper is founded in the UK by Arthur Pearson. |
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