January 14 - Birt Acres demonstrates his film projector, the Kineopticon, the first in Britain, to the Royal Photographic Society at the Queen's Hall in London. This is the first film show to an audience in the U.K.[1]
Ad for Vitascope Hall, New Orleans, offering "an entirely new series of pictures".
April - Edison and Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City.
May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is crowned in Moscow, the first coronation ever recorded in film.
July 26 - "Vitascope Hall" opens on Canal Street, New Orleans, the first business devoted exclusively to showing motion pictures at a fixed location [1]
In France, magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing early special effect techniques, including stop motion.
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^Mast, Gerald; Kawin, Bruce F., eds. (2007). "Birth". A Short History of the Movies (abridged 9th ed.). Pearson Education. ISBN9780321418210.
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