Download or read book A Chronology of Cinema, 1889-1896 written by Deac Rossell and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago, the first projected moving pictures appeared in laboratories and scientific demonstrations, as the drive to synthesize and reproduce motion, that had been urgently in the air for almost a decade, came to its peak. The new phenomenon swept around the world in 1896, a rapid internationalization that manifested itself not only in public screenings everywhere, but also in widespread professional contacts between manufacturers, exhibitors and filmmakers.