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The first documented showing before an audience of a motion picture with reeled film and electric light was in 1894 in Richmond, Indiana. The inventor of the Phantoscope, a prototype of the movie projector, Charles Francis Jenkins patented the projector shortly after.

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While some sources say it was Thomas Edison who did it, most scholars believe two brothers from France, Auguste and Louis Lumiere, did it before him-- there is evidence the Lumiere Brothers demonstrated their moving pictures in 1895.

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Eadweard Muybridge is often credited with the first motion picture. (1878)

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the anserw is 1895

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It was invented in 1876.

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Who invented the first motion picture and what year?

Edison in 1877


What year was the first motion picture invented by?

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