1890 in film

none January 2025 January 2025 1890 film music thumb|Ten remaining frames of London's Trafalgar Square by Wordsworth Donisthorpe thumb|175px|Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, 28 August 1841. 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 were developed on celluloid film by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, in Hyde Park, London in 1889. The process was patented in 1890. William K. L. 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 London's Trafalgar Square,Paul T Burns The History of The Discovery of Cinematography – 1885 – 1889 http://www.precinemahistory.net/1885.htm 10 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090518154312/http://www.precinemahistory.net/1885.htm 18 May 2009 live and Ten Remaining Frames Of Donisthorpe's 1890 'Trafalgar Square' Footage Come To Life http://www.precinemahistory.net/images/trafalgarsquare_animation_small.gif GIF 10 May 2009 directed by William Carr Croft and Wordsworth Donisthorpe. Monkeyshines, No. 1 – contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890, Monkeyshines, No. 2 and Monkeyshines, No. 3, directed by William K. L. Dickson. Mosquinha, directed by Étienne-Jules Marey. Traffic in King's Road, Chelsea, directed by William Friese-Greene. Births Month Date Name Country Profession Died January 10 Pina Menichelli Italy Actress 1984 30 Bruno Kastner Germany Actor 1932 February 17 Sol Lesser US Producer 1980 18 Edward Arnold US Actor 1956 18 Adolphe Menjou US Actor 1963 24 Marjorie Main US Actress 1975 March 3 Edmund Lowe US Actor 1971 17 Ted Adams US Actor 1973 20 Fania Marinoff US Actress 1971 April 26 Edgar Kennedy US Actor 1948 May 7 George Archainbaud France Director 1959 23 Herbert Marshall UK Actor 1966 June 1 Frank Morgan US Actor 1949 10 William A. Seiter US Director 1964 14 May Allison US Actress 1989 16 Stan Laurel UK Actor 1965 18 Gideon Wahlberg Sweden Actor, screenwriter, director 1948 25 Charlotte Greenwood US Actress, dancer 1977 August 2 Marin Sais US Actress 1971 22 Cecil Kellaway South Africa Actor 1973 27 Man Ray US Photographer, Director 1976 September 4 Gunnar Sommerfeldt Denmark Actor, director 1947 4 Naima Wifstrand Sweden Singer, Actress, Composer, Director 1968 October 1 Alice Joyce US Actress 1955 1 Stanley Holloway UK Actor 1982 2 Groucho Marx US Comedian, Actor 1977 3 Henry Hull US Actor 1977 6 Jack Rockwell US Actor 1947 November 20 Robert Armstrong US Actor 1973 Deaths c. 16 September – Louis Le Prince, French film pioneer, director of Roundhay Garden Scene (born 1842) Notes External links none List of 1890 films at IMDb List of 1890 deaths at IMDb List of 1890 births at IMDb Category:Film by year