Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture

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6 October, 1889

Thomas Edison showed his first motion picture on 6th October 1889. The great inventor, with the help of his employee, William Dickson, had developed and patented the Kinetograph, a motion picture camera. Both the kinetoscope and kinetograph were exhibited on 20th May 1891. Edison later founded a film studio which made about 1,200 films.