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Events

• 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."
• February 13 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
• April 14 - The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City.
• Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph.
• Kinetoscope viewing parlors begin to open in major cities. Each parlor contains several machines.

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Films released

• Fred Ott's Sneeze (Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze)
• Fred Ott Holding a Bird

Births

• January 3 - Zazu Pitts, actress
• September 15 - Jean Renoir, director
• October 7 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director (d. 1970)
• October 20 - Olive Thomas, actress (d. 1920)