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![Michael Beschloss on Twitter: "Thomas Edison (here in later life) showed his 1st experimental motion picture today 1889: http://t.co/I01Q0yK5Ji" / Twitter Michael Beschloss on Twitter: "Thomas Edison (here in later life) showed his 1st experimental motion picture today 1889: http://t.co/I01Q0yK5Ji" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BV5dtqtIMAAMNm7.jpg)
Michael Beschloss on Twitter: "Thomas Edison (here in later life) showed his 1st experimental motion picture today 1889: http://t.co/I01Q0yK5Ji" / Twitter
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On this day in 1897 — 125 years ago — Thomas Edison received a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph - Frank Beacham's Journal
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