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EVENTS

January - In Britain , Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul developed their own film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph ).

January - In the United States , a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat . Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope , which projected motion pictures.

Pathé Frères film company founded

April - Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat 's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City

May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow , in the first Coronation ever recorded in film.

French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing early special effects techniques, including stop-motion photography.

William Selig founded the Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago .

BIRTHS

June 16 - Norman Kerry , early silent film actor (d. 1956 )

July 16 - Evelyn Preer , pioneering African-American actress, singer (d. 1932 )

August 18 - Jack Pickford , actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy", (d. 1933 )

August 30 - Raymond Massey , actor (d. 1983 )