Black Mariah
The first film with a US copyright is "Fred Ott's Sneeze" or "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze," a five-second motion picture from 1894. It was submitted to the copyright office as a sheet of still images.
William McKinley at his 1897 inauguration.
In the USA at Thomas Alva Edison's lab. 1892.
Audrey Hepburn. It wasn't her first film, but it represented her first starring role in a major motion picture.
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The first practical motion picture camera and projector were invented by Thomas Edison.
The first motion picture was The Horse In Motion(1878).
The first film with a US copyright is "Fred Ott's Sneeze" or "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze," a five-second motion picture from 1894. It was submitted to the copyright office as a sheet of still images.
Thomas Edison invented the motion picture to improve his phonograph technology by adding moving images to sound recordings. He saw the commercial potential of combining sound and moving pictures to create a new form of entertainment. This invention eventually led to the development of the film industry.
George Eastman marketed the first roll of flexible photographic film, Eastman Negative Paper, in 1884 which was a coating on a paper base.The availability of flexible film allowed Thomas Edison to develop the motion picture camera in 1891, 7 years later.
The first motion pictures made in the Black Maria were deposited for copyright by W. K. L. Dickson at the Library of Congress in August 1893. The earliest copyrighted film that still survives is Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894, also known as Fred Ott's Sneeze, which records Fred Ott, an Edison employee, sneezing comically for the camera. This motion picture was not submitted to the Copyright Office on celluloid film, but rather as a series of positive photographic prints.
Roundhay Garden Scene
William Dickson invented the kinetograph, at the Edison laboratories.
A lot of people say it was for entertaining and other people say its just because he was curious but i think it was because he was smart and he got into thins like motion pictures because he liked it and he wanted to try to improve it and make it better.
William McKinley at his 1897 inauguration.
1888 - experimental film "Roundhay Garden Scene".