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The decade of the 1890s in film involved some significant events. ==Events== *1890 – Wordsworth Donisthorpe and W. C. Crofts film London's Trafalgar Square〔 and 〕 using a camera patented in 1889. *1891 – Following the work of Eadweard Muybridge, Étienne-Jules Marey, and George Eastman, Thomas Edison employee William Kennedy Dickson finishes work on a motion-picture camera and a viewing machine called the Kinetoscope. *May 20, 1891 – Thomas Edison holds the first public presentation of his Kinetoscope for the National Federation of Women's Clubs. *August 24, 1891 – Edison files for a patent of the Kinetoscope. *1892 – In France, Charles-Émile Reynaud began to have public screenings in Paris at the Théâtre Optique, with hundreds of drawings on a reel that he wound through his Zoetrope projector to construct moving images that continued for 15 minutes. *1892 – The Eastman Company becomes the Eastman Kodak Company. *March 14, 1893 - Edison is granted Patent #493,426 for "An Apparatus for Exhibiting Photographs of Moving Objects" (the Kinetoscope). *1893 – Edison builds a motion-picture studio near his laboratory, dubbed the "Black Maria" by his staff. *May 9, 1893 – In America, Edison holds the first public exhibition of films shot using his Kinetograph (the camera) at the Brooklyn Institute. Unfortunately, only one person at a time could use his Kinetoscope viewing machine. *January 7, 1894 – Edison films his assistant, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetoscope at the "Black Maria." *April 14, 1894 – The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope takes place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City. *1894 – Kinetoscope viewing parlors begin to open in major cities. Each parlor contains several machines. *1895 – In France, brothers named Auguste and Louis Lumière design and build a lightweight, hand-held motion picture camera called the Cinématographe. The brothers discover that their machine can also be used to project images onto a large screen. They create several short films at this time that are considered to be pivotal in the history of motion pictures. *November 1895 – In Germany, Emil and Max Skladanowsky develop their own film projector. *December 1895 – In France, the Lumière brothers hold their first public screening of films shot with their Cinématographe. *January 1896 – In Britain, Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul develop their own film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph). *January 1896 – In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope is designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. Armat begins to work with Edison to manufacture the Vitascope, which projects motion pictures. *April 1896 – Edison and Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City. *1896 – French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing many early special effects techniques, including stop-motion photography. *1897 – A total of 125 people die during a film screening at the Charity Bazaar in Paris after a curtain catches on fire from the ether used to fuel the projector lamp. *1899 – Pathé-Frères is founded. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1890s in film」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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