1888 in film

none January 2025 January 2025 1888 film music The following is an overview of the events of 1888 in film, including a list of films released and notable births. Events George Eastman files for a patent for his photographic film. Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge who proposes a scheme for sound film (27 February, West Orange, New Jersey). Étienne-Jules Marey starts work on his chronophotographe camera with 90 mm wide roll paper film. Charles-Émile Reynaud patents his Théâtre Optique which uses a kind of perforated film to create an animated show. Films thumb|200px|Roundhay Garden Scene, believed to be the world's earliest surviving motion-picture film Roundhay Garden Scene, Accordion Player and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge, filmed by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince in Leeds, United Kingdom, using paper "stripping" film and paper negative film. Horse and Rider Jumping Over an Obstacle1886 Ottomar Anschütz – "Elektrischer Schnellseher" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EArkp5YYTLA https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/EArkp5YYTLA 22 December 2021 live 4 November 2019 (Pferd und Reiter Springen über ein Hindernis) and other sequences, shot by Ottomar Anschütz in Germany. Births Month Date Name Country Profession Died January 3 George B. Seitz US Director, writer, actor, producer 1944 3 James Bridie Scotland Writer 1951 17 Edvard Persson Sweden Actor 1957 February 6 Lucile Gleason US Actress 1947 March 4 Rafaela Ottiano Italy Actress 1942 5 Jules Furthman US Writer, director, producer 1966 10 Barry Fitzgerald Ireland Actor 1961 30 Anna Q. Nilsson Sweden Actress 1974 April 11 Donald Calthrop UK Actor 1940 15 Florence Bates US Actress 1954 19 Pat West US Actor 1944 27 Florence La Badie US Actress 1917 May 7 Selmer Jackson US Actor 1971 17 Claude Mérelle France Actress 1976 25 Miles Malleson UK Actor, Writer 1969 July 4 Henry Armetta Italy Actor 1945 16 Percy Kilbride US Actor 1964 August 14 Robert Woolsey US Actor 1938 17 Monty Woolley US Actor 1963 29 Dina Romano Italy Actress 1957 September 12 Maurice Chevalier France Actor, Singer 1972 25 Hanna Ralph Germany Actress 1978 26 Wally Patch UK Actor, writer 1970 October 1 John E. Blakeley UK Producer, director, writer 1958 3 Claud Allister UK Actor 1970 9 Hank Patterson US Actor 1975 18 Paul Vermoyal France Actor 1925 25 Lester Cuneo US Actor, producer 1925 November 3 Maurice Vinot France Actor 1916 15 Andreas Malandrinos Greece Actor 1970 18 Frances Marion US Writer, director, producer, actress 1973 23 Nana Bryant US Actress 1955 23 Harpo Marx US Actor, writer 1964 24 Cathleen Nesbitt UK Actress 1982 25 Amund Rydland Norway Actor 1967 26 Francisco Canaro Uruguay Composer, Producer, Actor 1964 December 6 Will Hay UK Actor, writer, director 1949 18 Gladys Cooper UK Actress 1971 22 J. Arthur Rank UK Producer, writer 1972 27 Thea von Harbou Germany Actress, writer, director 1954 27 Svend Melsing Denmark Actor, Playwright 1946 28 F. W. Murnau Germany Director, writer, producer 1931 References External links none List of 1888 films at IMDb List of 1888 deaths at IMDb List of 1888 births at IMDb Category:Film by year Category:Articles containing video clips