1890 in film
Encyclopedia
Events
- William DicksonWilliam 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 EdisonThomas EdisonThomas 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 1889. Monkeyshines No. 1 becomes the first film shot on the system.
Films
- Monkeyshines, No. 1Monkeyshines, No. 1Monkeyshines is believed to be the first film shot in the United States. An experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope....
- contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890. - Monkeyshines, No. 2
- Monkeyshines, No. 3
- London's Trafalgar SquareLondon's Trafalgar SquareLondon's Trafalgar Square is a 1890 British silent black-and-white short film, shot by inventors and film pioneers Wordsworth Donisthorpe and William Carr Crofts at approximately 10 frames per second with an oval or circular frame on celuloid film using their 'kinesigraph' camera, showing traffic...
by Wordsworth DonisthorpeWordsworth DonisthorpeWordsworth Donisthorpe was an English individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast. His father was George E... - Falling Cat
Births
- January 4 - Weyler Hildebrand, Swedish actor, director and writer
- January 6 - Tor Weijden, Swedish actor
- January 30 - Bruno KastnerBruno KastnerBruno Kastner was a German stage and film actor, screenwriter and film producer whose career was most prominent in the 1910s and 1920s during the silent film era...
, German actor - June 14 - May AllisonMay AllisonMay Allison was an American stage and film actress whose greatest success was achieved in the early part of the 20th century in the medium of silent film.-Life and career:...
, American actress - June 16 - Stan LaurelStan LaurelArthur Stanley "Stan" Jefferson , better known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. His film acting career stretched between 1917 and 1951 and included a starring role in the Academy Award winning film...
, British actor - August 2 - Marin SaisMarin SaisMarin Sais was an American motion picture actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s...
, American actress - August 27 - Man RayMan RayMan Ray , born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...
, American photographer and director - September 4 - Naima WifstrandNaima WifstrandNaima Wifstrand was a Swedish film actress, operetta singer, troubadour, director and composer. Internationally, she was most notable for strong supporting parts in her later years in a number of Ingmar Bergman-films.-Biography:...
, Swedish singer, actress, composer and director - October 1 - Stanley HollowayStanley HollowayStanley Augustus Holloway, OBE was an English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady...
, British actor - October 2 - Groucho MarxGroucho MarxJulius Henry "Groucho" Marx was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. His rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born...
, American comedian, actor - October 12 - Carl Hagman, Swedish singer and actor
- December 25 - Hugo Bolander, Swedish producer, director, actor and writer
Deaths
- September 16 - Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, French film pioneer, director of Roundhay Garden SceneRoundhay Garden SceneRoundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short film directed by inventor Louis Le Prince. It was recorded at 12 frames per second, runs for 2.11 seconds and is the oldest surviving film.-Overview:...
(b.1842)