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Начало кинематографа на Википедии открывается по ссылке 1969 года. Все предыдущие ссылки идут на ту же статью, кратко хронологически описывающую период с 1826 по 1899. Следующая статья описывает период с 1874 по 1879 год, на нее ссылаются все статьи с 1970 по 1979. Все года за период с 1980 по 1984 ссылаются тоже на одну статью. А с 1985 начинаются статьи по годам.

1826 - first known photograph in history.

1832 - a device that creates an optical illusion of movement by mounting drawings on the face of a slotted, spinning disk (Phenakistoscope or Stroboscope).

1834 – The Zoetrope - a hollow drum with a strip of pictures around its inner surface.

1870s - Praxinoscope, "Théâtre Optique", "Whirligig of Life".

1878 - Railroad tycoon Leland Stanford hires British photographer Eadweard Muybridge to settle the questions of whether a galloping horse ever had all four of its feet off the ground. Muybridge successfully photographed a horse in fast motion using a series of 12 cameras controlled by trip wires. Muybridge's photos showed the horse with all four feet off the ground. Muybridge went on a lecture tour showing his photographs on a moving-image device he called the zoopraxiscope. Muybridge's experiments inspired French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey to invent equipment for recording and analyzing animal and human movement. Marey called his invention the chronophotographic camera, which was able to take multiple images superimposed on top of one another.

1879 - American George Eastman invents an emulsion-coating machine which enables the mass production of photographic dry plates.

1885 – American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use.

June 1889 or November 1890 – William K. L. Dickson, working for Thomas Edison, creates the first known motion picture films shot in the United States, the Monkeyshines films.

1891 – Designed around the work of Muybridge, Marey, and Eastman, Thomas Edison's employee William K. L. Dickson finishes work on a motion-picture camera, called the Kinetograph, and a viewing machine, called the Kinetoscope.

1892 – The Eastman Company becomes the Eastman Kodak Company.

March 14, 1893 – Thomas Edison is granted Patent #493,426 for "An Apparatus for Exhibiting Photographs of Moving Objects" (the Kinetoscope).

1895 – In France, brothers named Auguste and Louis Lumière design and build a lightweight, hand-held motion picture camera called the Cinématographe. The Lumière brothers discover that their machine can also be used to project images onto a large screen. The Lumière brothers created several short films at this time that are considered to be pivotal in the history of motion pictures.

1896 – French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing many early special effects techniques, including stop-motion photography.

На Жорже Мельесе я как раз и остановился. После него можно продолжить с Википедией по годам.