



The first American comic strip, Hogan's Alley, is published.Max Skaldanowsky presented films in Berlin using a two projector system called a Bioscope.This, the first public screening of a motion picture, is regarded as the "birth of film." Auguste and Louis Lumiere project their film, "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon-Montplaisir", at the Hotel Scribe in Paris, on December 28th.Thomas Edison opens his Kinetoscope Parlor in New York,.Thomas Edison copyrights the first motion picture, THE RECORD OF A SNEEZE.This system used a claw movement and perforated film that was synced to an intermittent shutter movement. Lois Lumiere invents the cinematograph, a combination camera -projector - printer, it was the first machine to show movies successfully on a screen.The Kinetsocope did not have an intermittent movement. He had already projected quite useful films onto a wall in his factory, but rather than producing a viewing system for the general public he came up with a machine in which reels of celluloid were not unrolled but stretched over a set of wheels that passed in front of a viewing window. Thomas Edison invents the Kinetsocope.

But the advent of film drove him out of business and in 1910 he threw all his equipment into a river and died destitute in a sanatorium in 1918. He was able to project 80 frames without changing reels and could project 10 to 15 minute "films". The Praxinoscope was a theatrical Zoetrope with mirrors placed on an inside column that reflected out the sequential drawings that were on the inside of the drum. Emil Reynaud (1844-1918) ,France, opened his Theatre Optique in Paris with an archetype of animation created by his invention the Praxinoscope.Goodwin invents nitrate celluloid film, which is a chemical combination of gun cotton and gum camphor.
