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1892
Edison's 11 / 2 - inch film in his vertical-feed motion picture camera establishes the basis for today's standard 35mm commercial film gauge -
1891
1891-Edison unveiled a peephole viewing machine during a convention of the Federation of Women's Clubs. -
1890
1890-Thomas Edison's assistant began devoting himself to the motion picture project. -
1893
Edison build a film studio called "The Black Maria", a term for a police patrol wagon that the studio resembles, on the grounds of his laboratories in New Jersey to produce films for his kinetoscopes machines. -
1894
On April 14 the Holland brothers open the first kinetoscope parlor in New York City. -
1895
From April 1894 through February 1895, Edison 's kinetoscope and film sales exceed $177,000. -
1896
Charles Raff and Frank Gammon bought the Jenkins-Armat phantoscope from Thomas Armat on behalf of Edison. They rename the projector " Edison's Vitascope", and it is hailed as Edison's latest invention. -
1897
The American Mutoscope Company marketing their own films and their new biograph projector, becomes the foremost motion picture company in the U.S. -
1898
The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor rise a multitude of Spanish-American War films.Edison files a patent-infringement suit against the Biograph Company.Edison 's lawyers visit two theater producers and warn them against exhibiting foreign films in America. -
1899
Vaudeville theatres establish permanent relations with motion picture exhibition services.