1889 in film

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Events

• 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 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.

Films

• Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses, a lost film directed by William Friese-Greene
• Monkeyshines No. 1 - contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890.

Births

• February 3 - Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director
• February 8 - Siegfried Kracauer, German movie critic and journalist
• February 23
  • Musidora, French actress, screenwriter, film director
  • Victor Fleming, American director and cinematographer
• April 16 - Charlie Chaplin, British actor and film-maker
• April 26 - Anita Loos – American writer and producer (died 1981)
• May 3 - Beulah Bondi – American actress (died 1981)
• May 20 - Karin Molander, Swedish actress
• May 31 - Athene Seyler, British actress
• June 11 - Wesley Ruggles, American movie director, producer
• June 15 - Salka Viertel, Austro-Hungarian actress and screenwriter.
• July 27 - Vera Karalli, Russian actress and ballerina
• August 8 - Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor
• August 24 - Tom London, American actor
• November 10 - Claude Rains, British-American actor
• November 19 - Clifton Webb, American actor