Other competitors soon displayed their own projection systems in American theaters, including the re-engineered Eidoloscope, which copied Vitascope innovations ; the Lumière Cinématographe, which had already debuted in Europe in 1895 ; Birt Acres ' Kineopticon ; and the Biograph which was marketed by the American Mutoscope Company.

Warner Brothers released Song of the Flame and Kismet ( both 1930 ) in a widescreen process they called Vitascope.

Vitascope was also used briefly as a trademark by Warner Brothers in 1930 for a widescreen process used for films such as Song of the Flame.

* In 1896, the very first film projected in Canada using Thomas Edison's revolutionary Vitascope technique was part of a tent show in Hintonburg put on by the Holland Brothers.

As far back as the Vitascope days, some exhibitors had screened films accompanied by phonographs playing appropriate, though very roughly timed, sound effects ; in the style of the Kinetophone described above, rhythmically matching recordings were also made available for march and dance subjects.

In 1896, Thomas Edison publicly demonstrated the Vitascope, one of the first film projectors, and Blackton was sent to interview Edison and provide drawings of how his films were made.

In 1896, Mitchell Mark of Buffalo, New York, may have been the first American to import Pathé films to the United States, where they were shown in the Vitascope Theater.

However, the first " storefront theater " in the US dedicated exclusively to showing motion pictures was Vitascope Hall, established on Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana July 26, 1896 — it was converted from a vacant store.

* July 26-" Vitascope Hall " opens on Canal Street, New Orleans, the first business devoted exclusively to showing motion pictures at a fixed location

It is reputed that the world's first movie theater ( that is, the first business devoted specifically to showing films for profit ) was " Vitascope Hall ", established on Canal Street in 1896.

Vitascope was an early film projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat.

The inventor did such a good job selling the art of movie-making that he talked Blackton and partner Smith into buying a print of the new film as well as nine other films, plus a Vitascope to show them to paying audiences ( Reader was brought back in to run the projector ).

The Edison Manufacturing Company agreed to manufacture the machine and to produce films for it, but on the condition it be advertised as a new Edison invention named the Vitascope.

In April 1896, Thomas Armat's Vitascope, manufactured by the Edison factory and marketed in Edison's name, was used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City.

A modified version of the Phantoscope was later sold to Thomas Edison who named it Edison's Vitascope and began projecting motion pictures in New York City vaudeville theaters, raising the curtain on American cinema.

Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope, which projected motion pictures.

* April 1896-Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City

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.

In the basement of the new Ellicott Square Building, Main Street, Buffalo, New York, Mitchell Mark ( properly spelled Mitchel Mark ) and his brother Moe Mark added what they called Edison's Vitascope Theater ( entered through Edisonia Hall ), which they opened to the general public on October 19, 1896 in collaboration with Rudolf Wagner, who had moved to Buffalo after spending several years working at the Edison laboratories.

Note that The Kiss ( 1896 ) was shot not for the Kinetoscope but for Vitascope projection.

Even Edison, initially dismissive of projection, joined the trend with the Vitascope, a modified Jenkins ' Phantoscope, within less than six months.

The Edison company took up a projector developed by Armat and Jenkins, the " Phantoscope ", which was renamed the Vitascope, and it joined various projecting machines made by other people to show the 480 mm.

A crucial factor was Thomas Edison's decision to sell a small number of Vitascope Projectors as a business venture in April – May 1896.

* January 1896-In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat.

* January-In the United States, the Vitascope film projector is designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat.

The rights to the system had been acquired by Raff and Gammon, who redubbed it the Vitascope and arranged with Edison to present himself as its creator.

Departing the Vitascope operation after little more than a year, Edison commissioned the development of his own projection systems, the Projectoscope and then multiple iterations of the Projecting Kinetoscope.

" Introducing Cinema to the American Public: The Vitascope in the United States, 1896 – 7 ," in Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition, ed.

Armat subsequently joined Thomas Edison, to whom he sold the rights to market the projector under the name Vitascope.

Thomas J. Armat ( October 25, 1866 – September 30, 1948 ) was an American mechanic and inventor, a pioneer of cinema best known through the co-invention of the Edison Vitascope.

Previous projectors, including Thomas Armat's projector, marketed by Edison as the Vitascope, had used a " beater mechanism ", invented by Georges Demenÿ in 1893, to achieve intermittent film transport.

Showings of silent films almost always featured live music, starting with the pianist at the first public projection of movies by the Lumière Brothers on December 28, 1895 in Paris.

A variation developed by the Lumière Brothers which used a single circular perforation on each side of the frame towards the middle of the horizontal axis.

The slight pinkish tinge caused by colloidal scattering ( the effect seen through a glass of water into which a couple of drops of milk have been mixed ) is exacerbated, and the use of artificial light -- especially fluorescent light -- upsets the color rendition of a system which the Lumière Brothers carefully balanced for use with natural daylight.

* The Lumière Brothers premiere their new Lumiere Wide format for the 1900 World Fair.

** The Lumière Brothers first project their films in Britain, at the Empire Theatre of Varieties, Leicester Square.

However, the competing Lumière Brothers Cinematograph had already exhibited different films in Montreal on June 27, 1896.

* Holonet on the Lumière Brothers retrieved August 1, 2005.

Another three of the earliest Lumière films, Partie de cartes, l ' Arroseur arrosé ( the first known filmed comedy ), and Repas de bébé, were also filmed in La Ciotat in 1895, at the Villa du Clos des Plages, the summer residence of the Lumière Brothers.

The Lumière Brothers in France were the principal advocates for this genre and also coined the term -- " Actualités " -- and used it as a descriptor in the printed catalogues of their films.

* Review of " The Lumière Brothers ' First Films " from Silent Era

It was also the first place in India to screen the Lumière Brothers ' Cinematographe invention in 1896.

The Lumière Brothers ' Autochrome process was based on one of the several color photography methods patented by du Hauron in 1868.