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Scientific American publishes drawings of Edweard Muybridge’s photographs of the horse Occident. Readers are invited to paste the pictures onto strips and view them through a Zoetrope. [MORE] |
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George Eastman secures a patent for a transparent paper-backed photographic film. [MORE] |
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| 1/2 - | Harvey Wilcox submits a detailed subdivision map to the County Recorder for 170 acres of land purchased in 1883 which he and his wife have christened ‘Hollywood.’ [MORE] | |||
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Hannibal Goodwin registers a patent for a flexible transparent photographic film made of cellulose nitrate and camphor that can be rolled onto a spool. [MORE] |
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| 27/2 - | Eadweard Muybridge visits Thomas Edison’s laboratory at West Orange to discuss combining Muybridge’s Zoopraxiscope and Edison’s phonograph. [MORE] | |||
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John Carbutt presents his new invention – celluloid – to the Photographic Society of Philadelphia and the Franklin Institute. [MORE] |
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Hannibal Goodwin solves the problem of his celluloid film curling by coating it with a sensItised gelatine emulsion. [MORE] |
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George Eastman and Henry Reichenbach simultaneously apply for a patent for a transparent roll of film made from fusel oil, camphor and amyl nitrate dissolved in nitrocellulose and wood alcohol. [MORE] |
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Edison and W. K. L. Dickson claim to have invented a machine that synchronises motion pictures and sound. [MORE] |
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