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JAMES J. CORBETT, PETER COURTENAY IN FIRST FIGHT FILM (1894)
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"CRIPPLE CREEK BARROOM" (EDISON-1 898)
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"UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" (EDISON-1903)
Sandow, the strong man; the Butterfly Dance by Annabelle, who later as Annabelle Whitford became one of Ziegf eld's first glorified beauties; and a film labeled simply "Dance" made with Miss Ruth Dennis, a young lady from Brooklyn who became a famous dancer as Ruth St. Dennis. In 1894 James J. Corbett and Peter Courtenay made the first fight film before the Edison camera at West Orange for the peepshow machines. That same year Woodville Latham devised a projector which he called the Pantoptikon. It was far from perfect, the pictures flickered, jumped and glimmered but it projected moving pictures on the newborn screen. On May 20, 1895, the first public showing took place on the roof of the Madison Square Garden. About the same time that Latham launched his im-j perfect projector, Louis and Auguste Lumiere of France patented their first pro j jection machine. Others engaged in nearly parallel efforts which were to affect the course of the screen were Thomas Armat of Washington, D. C, and Robert: W. Paul of London. On April 20, 1896, Koster and Bial's Music Hall began j presenting Edison's Vitascope pictures as one of the "acts" of their variety bill. The same year one of the most famous of the early films was made showing thej kissing scene between May Irwin and John C. Rice from their stage success "The Widow Jones." On March 17, 1897,' the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight at Carson City was filmed for Edison by a camera made especially for the event by Enoch j J. Rector. Eleven thousand feet of film were used, at that time the world's record i for photographing a single event. Edison was now due for competition. William j Kennedy and Laurie Dickson, who had formerly been associates of Edison, formed j the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company on October 12, 1896, for thej purpose of making motion pictures. The next year, Sigmund Lubin in Phila-j delphia made his first film "Horse Eating Hay" and J. Stuart Blackton, Albert E. Smith and William T. Rock joined forces to form the Vitagraph Company of America. France was entering the competition too with such pioneers as George j Melies, Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont. On April 16, 1902, the first motion] picture theatre, the Electric, opened its doors in Los Angeles. That same year Melies, who had formerly been a magician, made the first narrative film, the now famous "Trip To The Moon." In 1903 Edison followed with his equally famous first American narrative film, "The Great Train Robberv." It was 800 feet long and directed by Edwin S. Porter. Joseph Jefferson filmed scenes from his famous stage success "Rip Van Winkle" for Biograph and in 1904 Vitagraph
SCENE FROM A LUBIN FILM (1900)
GEORGE MELIES' "TRIP TO THE MOON" (1902)
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WILLIAM COURTENAY, BLANCHE BAYLISS
IN "MISS JERRY" (1894)
(ALEXANDER BLACK PHOTOPLAY)
THE CORBETT-FITZSIMMONS FIGHT AT CARSON CITY (1897)