Just Before Movies . A Journey to The Center of the Earth Novel by Jules Verne. First English Language appearance of a novel with prehistoric animals. 1882 O. C. Marsh publishes first classification of dinosaurs. Technically, this is the very first movie as we know it today.
Movies Begin . .
Thomas Edison opens the first Kinetoscope Parlor. Louis Lumiere the first commercial motion picture projection onto a screen. There were previous projections of motion pictures printed on film using several different devices. The Lumieres, in effect, opened the first movie theatre. History of early movies.