EdisonAlthough Kinetoscopio was invented by Thomas Edison, we can't forget the credit of W.K. Laurie Dickson who helped in it development. Edison didn't like the idea of  movemented images. He thought that only children would like that, and even them would get tyred real fast.Movie by Muybridge, UCR California museum of photography

Dickson's work with Edison and later with Muybridge in this area that became possible the development of the Kinetoscopio by Edison. The first Cinema theater was created by him in 1893 and it was built in a way that it could rotate depending on sun's position.

Auguste and Louis LumiereNot only in USA were working in movement images' record and project, in Europe by the same time other scientists were working on it. In France, in the year of 1895, Louis and Auguste Lumière registered a projector, 'The Cinematographe'.  The first movie consisted in film some workers leaving the family's factory and was named 'La sortie des ouvriers de L'usine Lumiere. For some people the birth of cinema was the first public projection of Lumiere brothers' movies in December 28 (1895) in Paris.

 Lumière Cinematograph

Edison aquired the rights of the Phantascope by Thomas Woodville and Charles Jenkins that named by Vitascope system and begun to project movies since 1896.

Despite several judicial processes that rised because of the regists, it was in the end of this century that appeared several enterprises dedicated  to the creation and projection of movies. Films were becoming popular between workers class.

It was Aurélio Paz Dos Reis in the year of 1896 carried through the first Portuguese films.

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