1894 in film

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Years in film
1870s
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
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1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 and beyond

Events

• January 7 - William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
• January 7 - Thomas Edison films his assistant, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetoscope at the "Black Maria."
• April 14 - The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City.
• June 6 - Charles Francis Jenkins projects a filmed motion picture before an audience in Richmond, Indiana. Earliest documented projection of a motion picture.
• Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph.
• Kinetoscope viewing parlors begin to open in major cities. Each parlor contains several machines.
• Birt Acres creates a 70 mm format, which he first uses to shoot the Henley Royal Regatta.

Films released in 1894

• Annie Oakley
• Annabelle Butterfly Dance
• Autour d'une cabine
• Athlete with Wand
• Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
• Bucking Broncho
• Buffalo Dance
• Caicedo with Pole
• Carmencita
• Chinese Opium Den
• Cockfight, no. 2
• Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
• Dickson Experimental Sound Film
• Fire Rescue Scene
• Fred Ott's Sneeze(Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze)
• Fred Ott Holding a Bird
• Glenroy Bros
• Hadj Cheriff
• Imperial Japanese Dance
• Leonard-Cushing Fight
• Luis Martinetti, Contortionist aka Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
• Miss Jerry
• Rêve au coin du feu
• Robetta and Doretto, (no. 2) aka Chinese Laundry Scene
• Sandow
• Sioux Ghost Dance
• Eugen Sandow
• The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight

Births

Day	Name	Profession	Year of death
January 3	Zazu Pitts	American actress	1963
June 16	Norman Kerry	American actor	1956
July 27	Mientje Kling	Dutch actress	1966
September 15	Jean Renoir	French director	1979
September 27	Olive Tell	American actress	1951
October 7	Del Lord	Canadian pioneer Hollywood director	1970
October 20	Olive Thomas	American actress	1920
November 9	Mae Marsh	American actress	1968
December 31	Pola Negri	Polish actress	1987

External links

Media related to 1894 in film at Wikimedia Commons

• 1894 at the Internet Movie Database