1890 in film
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The following is an overview of the events of 1890 in film, including a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Events
[edit]- The first moving pictures were developed on celluloid film by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, in Hyde Park, London in 1889. The process was patented in 1890.
- William K. L. Dickson completes his work for Thomas Edison on the Kinetograph cylinder either in this year or 1889. Monkeyshines No. 1 becomes the first film shot on the system.
Films
[edit]- London's Trafalgar Square,[1] directed by William Carr Croft and Wordsworth Donisthorpe.
- Monkeyshines, No. 1 – contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890, Monkeyshines, No. 2 and Monkeyshines, No. 3, directed by William K. L. Dickson.
- Mosquinha, directed by Étienne-Jules Marey.
- Traffic in King's Road, Chelsea, directed by William Friese-Greene.
Births
[edit]Month | Date | Name | Country | Profession | Died | |
January | 10 | Pina Menichelli | Italy | Actress | 1984 | |
30 | Bruno Kastner | Germany | Actor | 1932 | ||
February | 17 | Sol Lesser | US | Producer | 1980 | |
18 | Edward Arnold | US | Actor | 1956 | ||
18 | Adolphe Menjou | US | Actor | 1963 | ||
24 | Marjorie Main | US | Actress | 1975 | ||
March | 3 | Edmund Lowe | US | Actor | 1971 | |
17 | Ted Adams | US | Actor | 1973 | ||
20 | Fania Marinoff | US | Actress | 1971 | ||
April | 26 | Edgar Kennedy | US | Actor | 1948 | |
May | 7 | George Archainbaud | France | Director | 1959 | |
23 | Herbert Marshall | UK | Actor | 1966 | ||
June | 1 | Frank Morgan | US | Actor | 1949 | |
10 | William A. Seiter | US | Director | 1964 | ||
14 | May Allison | US | Actress | 1989 | ||
16 | Stan Laurel | UK | Actor | 1965 | ||
18 | Gideon Wahlberg | Sweden | Actor, screenwriter, director | 1948 | ||
25 | Charlotte Greenwood | US | Actress, dancer | 1977 | ||
August | 2 | Marin Sais | US | Actress | 1971 | |
22 | Cecil Kellaway | South Africa | Actor | 1973 | ||
27 | Man Ray | US | Photographer, Director | 1976 | ||
September | 4 | Gunnar Sommerfeldt | Denmark | Actor, director | 1947 | |
4 | Naima Wifstrand | Sweden | Singer, Actress, Composer, Director | 1968 | ||
October | 1 | Alice Joyce | US | Actress | 1955 | |
1 | Stanley Holloway | UK | Actor | 1982 | ||
2 | Groucho Marx | US | Comedian, Actor | 1977 | ||
3 | Henry Hull | US | Actor | 1977 | ||
6 | Jack Rockwell | US | Actor | 1947 | ||
November | 20 | Robert Armstrong | US | Actor | 1973 |
Deaths
[edit]- c. September 16 – Louis Le Prince, French film pioneer, director of Roundhay Garden Scene (born 1842)
- c. December 21 – Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish Actress, dies at 78 (born 1812)
Notes
[edit]- ^ Burns, Paul T, The History of The Discovery of Cinematography – 1885 – 1889, archived from the original on 2009-05-18, retrieved 2009-05-10 and Ten Remaining Frames Of Donisthorpe's 1890 'Trafalgar Square' Footage Come To Life (GIF), retrieved 2009-05-10
External links
[edit]Media related to 1890 in film at Wikimedia Commons