Events

• Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquarted in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded by George Eastman in 1892....
  
   is the first company to begin commercial production of film on a flexible transparent base
  Film base
  A film base is a transparent substrate which acts as a support medium for the photosensitive emulsion that lies atop it. Despite the numerous layers and coatings associated with the emulsion layer, the base generally accounts for the vast majority of the thickness of any given film stock...
  
  , celluloid
  Celluloid
  Celluloid is the name of a class of compounds created from nitrocellulose and camphor, plus dyes and other agents. Generally regarded to be the first thermoplastic, it was first created as Parkesine in 1862 and as Xylonite in 1869, before being registered as Celluloid in 1870. Celluloid is...
  
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• The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film are made in Hyde Park, London
  Hyde Park, London
  Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, United Kingdom, and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.The park is divided in two by the Serpentine...
  
   by William Friese Greene
• Wordsworth Donisthorpe
  Wordsworth Donisthorpe
  Wordsworth Donisthorpe was an English individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast. His father was George E...
  
   invents the Kinesigraph, which photographs a round image on 68 mm film.
• William Dickson
  William Dickson (film pioneer)
  William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was aFrench-born Anglo-Scots inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison .-Biography:...
  
   completes his work for Thomas Edison
  Thomas Edison
  Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...
  
   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
  Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses
  Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses is an alleged 1889 British silent black-and-white short film, shot by inventor and film pioneer William Friese-Greene on celuloid film using his 'chronophotographic' camera, which takes it's name from a description of the...
  
  
• Monkeyshines No. 1 - contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890.

Births

• February 8 - Siegfried Kracauer
  Siegfried Kracauer
  Siegfried Kracauer was a German-Jewish writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist...
  
  , German movie critic and journalist
• February 23 - Musidora
  Musidora
  Musidora was the stage name of Jeanne Roques, a popular French silent film actress. She became famous for her vamp roles in such film serials as Les Vampires and Judex, in which she developed a persona comparable to that of Theda Bara...
  
  , French actress, screenwriter, film director
• April 16 - Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
  
  , British actor
• May 20 - Karin Molander
  Karin Molander
  Karin Molander was a Swedish stage and film actress whose career spanned over five decades.-Career:Born Katarina Margareta Elisabet Edwertz in Stockholm, Sweden, she began taking classes from theater actress Julia Håkansson at a young age...
  
  , Swedish actress
• May 31 - Athene Seyler
  Athene Seyler
  Athene Seyler, CBE was an English actress.Although better known as a stage actress, she first appeared on the stage in 1909 and made her film debut in 1921, and became known for playing slightly dotty old ladies....
  
  , British actress
• June 11 - Wesley Ruggles, American movie director, producer
• June 15 - Salka Viertel
  Salka Viertel
  Salka Viertel was an actress and screenwriter. The pianist and composer Eduard Steuermann was her brother. Mrs. Viertel was born Salomea Steuermann in Sambor, a city then in the province of Galicia, which was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but today is in western Ukraine.-Career:She...
  
  , actress and screenwriter.
• July 27 - Vera Karalli
  Vera Karalli
  Vera Alexeyevna Karalli was a notable Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and silent film actress during the early years of the twentieth century.-Early life and career:...
  
  , Russian actress and ballerina
• August 24 - Tom London
  Tom London
  Tom London was an American actor who, according to "The Guinness Book of Movie Records," is credited with appearing in the most movies in the history of Hollywood...
  
  , American actor