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| 1885 | ||||
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| – William Friese-Greene begins experimenting with oiled paper, essentially the earliest form of film. [MORE] | ||||
| 1887 | ||||
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| – William Friese-Greene contacts Thomas Edison to explore the possibility of working together to synchronise sound with moving images. [MORE] | ||||
| 1888 | ||||
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Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince shoots the first ever cinematographic motion pictures. [MORE] |
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| 1889 | ||||
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William Friese-Greene shoots 20 feet of film in London’s Hyde Park.[MORE] |
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William Friese-Green applies for a patent for his single lens chronophotographic camera . [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – Wordsworth Donisthorpe registers a patent for a camera that records motion, but is ultimately unable to find funding to develop his invention. [MORE] | ||||
| 1894 | ||||
| Britain’s first Kinetoscope Parlour opens at 70 Oxford Street, London. [MORE] | ||||
| 1895 | ||||
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Birt Acres shoots the short film Incident at Clovelly Cottage using a camera constructed by Robert Paul. [MORE] | |||
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Robert Paul and Birt Acres film the Cambridge v Oxford boat race. [MORE] | |||
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| 27/5 - | Birt Acres takes out a sole patent on the Kineopticon camera which he designed and built with Robert Paul. [MORE] | |||
| 29/5 - | Robert Paul and Birt Acres film the Derby. [MORE] |