1850-1859

<< Cinema >>

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Beginning of the mass production of magic lanterns for home use.

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>> Watch video Poliorama Panòptique (La llum del cinema series).

>> Watch video Camera Lucida.

<< Photography >>

1850

Albumen print, characteristic of the 19th century. Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor and Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard.

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>> Watch video process with albumen print.

>> Watch video Japanese photo album.

1851

Wet collodion, the negative par excellence until 1880. Frederick Scott Archer.

1854

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patents the carte de visite format.

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James Ambrose Cutting patents the ambrotype.

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1855

Collotype, a photomechanical process. Alphonse-Louis Poitevin.

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Carbon prints, a pigmentary process. Alphonse-Louis Poitevin.

1856

Adolphe Alexandre Martin discovers the ferrotype, patented by Hamilton Smith.

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Amateur Film

It begins in the 1890s >>

Television and video

It begins in the 1860s >>

Sound >>

1857

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville designs the phonautograph, the first device capable of recording sound on a physical medium, although it was later impossible to reproduce it.

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