(WDBJ) - On this day in 1897, Thomas Edison received a patent for the kinetographic camera. A certain new and useful Improvement in Kinetoscopes," the forerunner of the motion picture film projector.
Every year movies are being released more and more; however, no one ever stops to think how films first began. The first experiments of film appeared in the late 19th century about 1874, with a focus ...