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  2. Kinetoscope - Wikipedia

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    The Kinetograph and Kinetoscope were modified, possibly with Rector's assistance, so they could manage filmstrips three times longer than had previously been used. [59] The June 1894 Leonard–Cushing bout. Each of the six one-minute rounds recorded by the Kinetograph was made available to exhibitors for $45. [60]

  3. History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph

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    History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph is a book written by siblings William Kennedy Dickson and Antonia Dickson about the history of film. The brother Dickson wrote from his experiences working for Thomas Edison at his " Black Maria " studio in West Orange , New Jersey; Edison himself prefaced the book.

  4. File:James J Corbett 1894.ogv - Wikipedia

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    CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Kinetoscope Exhibiting Co., 1894. SUMMARY From F.M. Prescott catalog: This fight consists of six rounds, each round on a film 150 feet long. It is not a fac-simile [sic] or a "fake" of any description, but an actual contest between James J. Corbett, former champion of the world, and Peter Courtney.

  5. Selig Polyscope Company - Wikipedia

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    The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company that was founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago, Illinois. [1] The company produced hundreds of early, widely distributed commercial moving pictures, including the first films starring Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd, Colleen Moore, and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

  6. William Kennedy Dickson - Wikipedia

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    History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph (with Antonia Dickson, MOMA Publications 2000 ISBN 978-0870700385 Facsimile of Dickson's own copy of the book published in 1895) An Authentic Life of Edison. The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison. (with Antonia Dickson, 8 volumes. New-York. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1894) [18]

  7. Louis Le Prince - Wikipedia

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    In France, an appreciation society was created as L'Association des Amis de Le Prince (Association of Le Prince's Friends), which still exists in Lyon. In 1990, Christopher Rawlence wrote The Missing Reel, The Untold Story of the Lost inventor of Moving Pictures and produced the TV programme The Missing Reel (1989) for Channel Four, a ...

  8. Robert W. Paul - Wikipedia

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    Robert William Paul (3 October 1869 – 28 March 1943) was an English pioneer of film and scientific instrument maker.. He made narrative films as early as April 1895, which were shown first in Edison Kinetoscope knockoffs.

  9. List of cinematic firsts - Wikipedia

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    French astronomer P.J.C. Janssen came up with the idea for a "revolver to shoot the individual". This huge camera system used a Maltese cross-type mechanism, very similar to the system that would later be of great importance in the development of movie cameras.