"Atchoo!"

🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 7 January 1894, William K.L. Dickson captured "Fred Ott's Sneeze" as a motion picture at #ThomasEdison's Black Mariah Studio, West Orange, New Jersey.

#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #September13, 1898 #HannibalGoodwin of #TheHouseOfPrayerEpiscopalChurchAndRectory in #NewarkNJ patents flexible #CelluloidFilm used in #ThomasEdison's #Kinetoscope for #MotionPictures.
#JerseyProud #PhotoSky
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#ThomasEdison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb 1880 https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/thomas-edisons-patent-application-for-the-light-bulb

On May 4, 1878: #ThomasEdison's phonograph is shown for the first time at the Grand Opera House in NYC.

#TopoftheList #MovienightBonusFeature Our Top of the List Movie is #GuillermoDelToro's #2025Frankenstein. But what was the #1stAdaptation?
THat would be #ThomasEdison's #1910Frankenstein [ #WholeFilm]

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#OTD in 1895, Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway and Gray, demonstrated their Panopticon, the first movie projector developed in the U.S. (top) Unlike #ThomasEdison's Kinetoscope, where one viewer looked into a peep-show box (bottom), this one projected to a large audience. #film #filmhistory