1894 in film

The following is an overview of the events of 1894 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.

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January 7

William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
Thomas Edison films his assistant, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetoscope at the "Black Maria."

William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.

Thomas Edison films his assistant, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetoscope at the "Black Maria."

April 14 - The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City.

June 6 - Charles Francis Jenkins projects a filmed motion picture before an audience in Richmond, Indiana. Earliest documented projection of a motion picture.

Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph.

Kinetoscope viewing parlors begin to open in major cities. Each parlor contains several machines.

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