1889 in film

none January 2025 January 2025 May 2018 1889 film music The following is an overview of the events of 1889 in film, including a list of films released and notable births. Events thumb|200px|Monkeyshines No. 1 and 2. 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 K. L. 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 (also known as Hyde Park Corner), a lost film and the first moving picture developed on celluloid film, directed by William Friese-Greene Monkeyshines No. 1 – contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890. Births Month Date Name Country Profession Died January 23 Franklin Pangborn US Actor 1958 February 3 Carl Theodor Dreyer Denmark Director 1968 4 Walter Catlett US Actor, Comedian 1960 6 Herbert Hübner Germany Actor 1972 8 Siegfried Kracauer Germany Critic, Journalist 1966 22 Joseph Egger Austria Actor 1966 23 Musidora France Actress, screenwriter, director 1957 23 Victor Fleming US Director, cinematographer 1949 March 21 W. S. Van Dyke US Director 1943 28 Lola Braccini Italy Actress 1969 April 16 Charlie Chaplin UK Actor, filmmaker 1977Charlie Chaplin – British actor, director, writer, and composer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlie-Chaplin Encyclopædia Britannica 30 May 2018 14 James Stephenson UK Actor 1941 26 Anita Loos US Writer, producer 1981 28 Bryant Washburn US Actor 1963 May 3 Beulah Bondi US Actress 1981 5 Harry Woods US Actor 1968 20 Karin Molander Sweden Actress 1978 31 Athene Seyler UK Actress 1990 June 11 Wesley Ruggles US Director, producer 1972 15 Marjorie Rambeau US Actress 1970 July 8 Eugene Pallette US Actor 1954 16 Larry Semon US Actor, screenwriter, director, producer 1978 27 Vera Karalli Russia Actress, Ballerina 1972 August 8 Hans Egede Budtz Denmark Actor 1968 24 Tom London US Actor 1963 October 3 Alan Dinehart US Actor 1944 12 Victor Potel US Actor 1947 13 Douglass Dumbrille Canada Actor 1974 November 10 Claude Rains UK Actor 1967 19 Clifton Webb US Actor 1966 30 Ramsay Hill UK Actor, technical advisor 1976Stewart, William T. (1981). International Film Necrology. New York: Garland Publishing. p. 244. 0-8240-9552-9. References External links List of 1889 films at IMDb List of 1889 deaths at IMDb List of 1889 births at IMDb Category:Film by year Category:Articles containing video clips