Februaryâ"March - Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres build and run the first working 35 mm movie camera in Britain, the Kineopticon. Their first films include Incident at Clovelly Cottage, The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race and Rough Sea at Dover.
February 13 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
March 22 - First display of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière (private screening).
May 27 - Birt Acres patents the Kineopticon under his own name.
Late September - C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat demonstrate their Phantoscope, a motion picture projector, in Atlanta, Georgia at the Cotton States and International Exposition.
November - In Germany, Emil and Max Skladanowsky develop their own film projector.
December 30 - The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company motion pictures is founded in New Jersey by the KMCD Syndicate of William Kennedy Dickson, Henry Marvin, Herman Casler and Elias Koopman.
Herman Casler of American Mutoscope Company, aka American Mutoscope and Biograph Company manufactures the Biograph 68Â mm camera, which will become the first successful large format 68mm (70mm) film.
Henri Joly debuts his Joly-Normandin 60Â mm format.
Films released in 1895
Akrobatisches Potpourri
Annabelle Serpentine Dance, directed by William K. L. Dickson, starring Annabelle Moore
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, directed by Louis Lumiere
Autour d'une cabine, directed by Charles-Ãmile Reynaud