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American inventor Charles Coleman Sellers patents the Kinematoscope. The Kinematoscope used [posed] photographs mounted on a turning paddlewheel [In 1870 in Philadelphia, USA] ..."the Kinematoscope crudely projected the photographs for the audience by flashing them rapidly on a screen."

Source: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/Cl42Lect1.html

In 1861 Charles Coleman Sellers patented the Kinematoscope in Philadelphia PA and in 1870 is claimed (by the source) to have projected the first motion picture shown to a theater audience - also in Philadelphia PA.

Source: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/Cl42Lect1.html

Charles Coleman Sellers, U.S. mechanical engineer and ASME's 5th president (1886-87), pioneered photography by artificial light and, in 1890, designed the first large dynamos for the Niagara Falls power plant (Cataract Construction Company). He was born Jan. 28, 1827, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died Dec. 28, 1907, Philadelphia.

Source: http://www.asme.org/hist/me_biog.html#Coleman Sellers

In 1861, a Philadelphia machinist named Charles Coleman Sellers received a patent for a device that displayed moving pictures by rotating a series of still photos mounted on a wheel.

Source: http://www.talks.com/library/rg031897.html

In 1861 Charles Coleman Sellers patented the Kinematoscope, a machine that took a series of posed still photographs and flashed them onto a screen. Though it was a crude device, the pictures appeared to move and America had its first movie theatre.

Source: http://myron.sjsu.edu/caesars/COMM.HTM

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