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Eastman Kodak is the first company to begin commercial production of film on a flexible transparent base, celluloid.
The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film are made in Hyde Park, London by William Friese Greene.
Wordsworth Donisthorpe invents the Kinesigraph, which photographs a round image on 68 mm film.
William K. L. Dickson completes his work for Thomas Edison on the Kinetograph cylinder either in this year or 1890. Monkeyshines No. 1 becomes the first film shot on the system.