1896 in film (original) (raw)

Events

January - In Britain, Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul developed their own film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph).
January - In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope, which projected motion pictures.
Path� Fr�res film company founded
April - Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City
May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow, in the first coronation ever recorded in film.
French magician and filmmaker Georges M�li�s begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing early special effects techniques, including stop-motion photography.