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
- The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 and the process was patented in 1890.
- William Kennedy 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
- Monkeyshines, No. 1 - contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890.
- Monkeyshines, No. 2, directed by William K. L. Dickson
- Monkeyshines, No. 3, directed by William K. L. Dickson
- London's Trafalgar Square,[1] directed by Wordsworth Donisthorpe
Births
- January 10 - Pina Menichelli, Italian actress
- January 30 - Bruno Kastner, German actor
- February 18 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor
- February 24 - Marjorie Main, American actress
- May 23 - Herbert Marshall, British actor
- June 10 - William A. Seiter, American film director
- June 14 - May Allison, American actress
- June 16 - Stan Laurel, British actor
- June 18 - Gideon Wahlberg, Swedish actor, screenwriter and film director
- August 2 - Marin Sais, American actress
- August 27 - Man Ray, American photographer and director
- September 4
- Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director
- Naima Wifstrand, Swedish singer, actress, composer and director
- October 1 - Stanley Holloway, British actor
- October 2 - Groucho Marx, American comedian, actor
Deaths
- September 16 - Louis Le Prince, French film pioneer, director of Roundhay Garden Scene (born 1842)
Notes
- ^ Burns, Paul T, The History of The Discovery of Cinematography - 1885 - 1889, archived from the original on 2009-05-13, retrieved 2009-05-10
{{citation}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) and Ten Remaining Frames Of Donisthorpe's 1890 'Trafalgar Square' Footage Come To Life (GIF), retrieved 2009-05-10
External links
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