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Film History Before 1920 (2349 words) |
 | The Kinetograph used film which was 35mm wide and had sprocket holes to advance the film. |
| The Kinetoscope, the forerunner of the motion picture film projector (without sound), was finally patented on August 31, 1897 (Edison applied for the patent in 1891). |
| Edison's film studio was used to supply films for this sensational new form of entertainment. |
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1894 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (176 words) |
| January 7 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. |
| January 7 - Thomas Edison films his assistant, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetoscope at the "Black Maria." |
| Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph. |
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