Who invented the film camera and who was the first to use it?

George Eastman marketed the first

roll of flexible photographic film, Eastman Negative Paper, in 1884

which was a coating on a paper base. It was called "stripping film"

because the paper backing had to be stripped off during processing.

Eastman American Film was introduced in 1885, the first transparent

photographic film, "celluloid film" or "nitrate film". Reverend

Hannibal Goodwin invented a roll film with a transparent backing

that was more flexible and the Eastman company acquired this film

in 1889.