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Events

March 22 - First display of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière
(private screening).
Gaumont Pictures
founded by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont
.
In France, brothers named Auguste and Louis Lumière, designed and built a lightweight, hand-held motion picture camera called the Cinématographe. The Lumière brothers discovered that their machine could also be used to project images onto a large screen. The Lumière brothers created several short films at this time that are considered to be pivotal in the history of motion pictures.
September or October - C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat demonstrate their Phantoscope, a motion picture projector, in Atlanta, Georgia.
November - In Germany, Emil and Max Skladanowsky develop their own film projector.
December 28 - The Lumière brothers
have their first paying audience at the Grand Café Boulevard des Capucines — this date is sometimes considered the debut of the motion picture as an entertainment medium.

Births

February 7 - Anita Stewart
February 8 - King Vidor
March 17 - Shemp Howard
May 6 - Rudolph Valentino
July 26 - Gracie Allen
October 2 - Bud Abbott
October 4 - Buster Keaton
October 21 - Edna Purviance

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