1850-1859
| 1850 ca Beginning of the mass production of magic lanterns for home use. 
 >> Watch video Poliorama Panòptique (La llum del cinema series). | 1850 Albumen print, characteristic of the 19th century. Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor and Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard. 
 >> 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. 
 James Ambrose Cutting patents the ambrotype. 
 1855 Collotype, a photomechanical process. Alphonse-Louis Poitevin. 
 Carbon prints, a pigmentary process. Alphonse-Louis Poitevin. 1856 Adolphe Alexandre Martin discovers the ferrotype, patented by Hamilton Smith. 
 | 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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