1900s
1900
The Kinora comes onto the market: a device for use at home, on the table, for viewing short films through a lens using a system that flips through the frames printed on pieces of cardboard glued to a rotating axle.
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Gaumont's Chrono de Poche camera comes onto the market, the first camera that replaces manual traction (a handle) for winding the film with a motor worked with a string (clockwork mechanism).
1900-1903Several home movie-making devices are marketed with different formats of narrow-gauge film that all fail: Vitak with 17.5mm film (USA, 1902), Ernemann's Kino I with 17.5mm film (Germany, 1903).
1908-1910Kodak brings out Safety Film, non-flammable cellulose acetate film, safer than cellulose nitrate. It was initially used mainly in the home filmmaking market.