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John Carbutt

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contribution to motion pictures

  • Eadweard Muybridge
    In motion-picture technology: History

    John Carbutt manufactured the first commercially successful celluloid photographic film in 1888, but it was too stiff for convenient use. By 1889 the George Eastman company had developed a roll film of celluloid coated with photographic emulsion for use in its Kodak still camera. This…

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