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2000 Durward Kirby, sidekick, Candid Camera, dies at 87

1999 Hazel Frederick, face in a crowd, faced the camera when Mary Tyler Moore tossed her hat in the opening credits of her show, dies at 91

1999 Allen Funt, Candid Camera guy, dies at 84

1993 Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78

1991 Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Captain Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73

1991 Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81

1988 Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville New Jersey home

1988 "Price is Right" model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera

1976 James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69

1973 Ludwig Stossel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 89

1970 Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera

1964 Mike Nolan, rocker, Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies

1954 Cheryl Baker, rock vocalist, Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies

1953 Bobby Gubby, rocker, Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies

1951 John Van Druten's "I am a Camera," premieres in New York City

1949 Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC

1949 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 in New York City

1948 1st Polaroid camera sold

1948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC

1948 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US

1947 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in New York City, by E H Land

1946 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82

1944 Fannie Flagg, Birmingham, Alabama, actress/comediene, Candid Camera

1936 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla

1935 Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies

1932 Camera exposure meter patented, W. N. Goodwin

1930 John Bartholomew Tucker, born in Pennsylvania, TV host, Candid Camera, Treasure Island

1922 Ilja Hurnik, born in Poruba, Czechoslovakia, composer, essayist, studied at Prague Conservatory, Prague Academy of Arts, recorded 'sonata da camera', for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord on Cedille Records

1918 Ron Randell, Sydney Australia, actor, Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera

1914 Allen Funt, born in Brooklyn, New York, TV host and creator, Candid Camera

1906 James Flavin, Portland Me, actor, Man With a Camera

1903 Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88

1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector

1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera

1889 George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time

1889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope

1888 George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers "Kodak"

1888 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"

1883 Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor, Man With a Camera

1864 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer, Camera Work

1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio

1854 George Eastman, born in Waterville, New York, inventor, Kodak camera

1814 Nicolas Beets, Hildebrand, Dutch writer, Camera Obscura


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