Early History and Growth of the Motion Picture Industry

Otto Nelson

In 1893, Mr. C. Francis Jenkins by his invention, the phantoscope, gave the world something entirely new; with this machine pictures in motion were projected on a screen. He gave a number of private exhibitions, but the first public exhibition of motion pictures ever presented in America was in 1895 with Jenkins’ invention at the Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia.

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1926-05
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Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J00788