1895 in film

none January 2025 January 2025 1895 film music The following is an overview of the events of 1895 in film, including a list of films released and notable births. Events February–March – Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres build and run the first working 35 mm movie camera in Britain, the Kineopticon. Their first films include Incident at Clovelly Cottage (March), The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race (March 30) and Rough Sea at Dover.Paul Burns The History of the Discovery of Cinematography Chapter 15, 1895–1900 http://www.precinemahistory.net/1895.htm 1999 August 14, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110724021600/http://www.precinemahistory.net/1895.htm July 24, 2011 live February 13 – In France, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination lightweight, hand-held movie camera and projector. The several short films they create at this time are considered to be pivotal in the history of film. March 22 – Auguste and Louis Lumière make what is probably the first presentation of a projected celluloid film moving picture, the 46-second Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, to members of the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale in Paris.Chardère B. Borgé G. Borgé M. Les Lumière 1985 Bibliothèque des Arts Paris 2-85047-068-6 French 71 May 27 – Birt Acres patents the Kineopticon under his own name. Late September – C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat demonstrate their Phantoscope, a motion picture projector, in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Cotton States and International Exposition. November 1 – In Germany, Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil present a short film at the Berlin Wintergarten theatre using the movie projector they have developed. December 28 – Auguste and Louis Lumière make what is probably the first commercial public screening of projected moving picture films to a paying audience, at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris.Présentation Du Cinématographe Lumière https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/presentation-du-cinematographe-lumiere/ March 28, 2023 Encyclopædia Universalis This date is sometimes considered the debut of the motion picture as an entertainment medium. December 30 – The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company motion pictures is founded in New Jersey by the KMCD Syndicate of William Kennedy Dickson, Henry Marvin, Herman Casler and Elias Koopman.Photoplay Terry Ramsaye Terry Ramsaye January 1925 121 The Romantic History of the Motion Picture https://archive.org/stream/pho28chic#page/n124/mode/1up April 28, 2018 Casler has manufactured the Biograph 68 mm camera, which becomes the first successful large format 68mm (70mm) film. Annabelle the Dancer is a sensation in shorts such as Annabelle Serpentine Dance. William Kennedy Dickson and his sister Antonia publish History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph in the United States with a preface by Thomas Edison, the first history of the subject. Gaumont founded by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont. Woodville Latham and his sons develop the Latham Loop – the concept of loose loops of film on either side of the intermittent movement to prevent stress from the jerky movement. This is debuted in the Eidoloscope, which is also the first widescreen format (1.85:1). Henri Joly debuts his Joly-Normandin 60 mm format. Films released in 1895 thumb|250px|L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895) the earliest known instance of film comedy, as well as the first use of film to portray a fictional story. Akrobatisches Potpourri Annabelle Serpentine Dance, directed by William Heise, starring Annabelle Moore The Baby's Meal, directed by Louis Lumiere, starring Auguste Lumiere, (his wife) Marguerite, and (their daughter) Andrée Bauerntanz zweier Kinder Billy Edwards and the Unknown a.k.a. Billy Edwards Boxing The Blacksmiths, directed by Louis Lumiere Boat Leaving The Port, directed by Louis Lumiere Boxing Kangaroo Card Party, directed by Louis Lumiere La Charcuterie mécanique Demolition Of A Wall, directed by Louis Lumiere and starring Auguste Lumiere, the man in charge...pointing The Derby, directed by Birt Acres The Dickson Experimental Sound Film, directed by and starring William K. L. Dickson on violin. First sound film. The Execution of Mary Stuart, directed by Alfred Clark. First special effect (stop camera edit effect) in cinema. Incident at Clovelly Cottage, shot by Birt Acres Fishing For Goldfish, directed by Louis Lumiere, starring Auguste Lumiere and (his daughter) Andrée Opening of the Kiel Canal The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race Cordeliers' Square in Lyons, directed by Louis Lumiere Photograph, directed by Louis Lumiere The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon, directed by Louis Lumiere Princess Ali a.k.a. Egyptian Dance, directed by William Heise Rough Sea at Dover, directed by Birt Acres Le Saut à la couverture Serpentinen Tanz L'Arroseur Arrosé, directed by Louis Lumiere. May be the first outdoor comedy film ever made. Swimming In The Sea, directed by Louis Lumiere Transformation By Hats, Comic View, directed by Louis Lumiere Trilby Hypnotic Scene, directed by William Heise, produced by Thomas Edison Trilby Death Scene, directed by William Heise, produced by Thomas Edison La Voltige Das Wintergartenprogramm, directed by Max Skladanowsky Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, directed by Louis Lumiere Births Month Date Name Country Profession Died January 5 A. Edward Sutherland US Director, Actor 1973 23 Raymond Griffith US Actor 1957 February 7 Anita Stewart US Actress, Producer 1961 19 Louis Calhern US Actor 1956 21 Charles King US Actor 1957 25 Einar Axelsson Sweden Actor 1971 March 11 Shemp Howard US Actor 1955 24 Syd Saylor US Actor 1962 25 Valéry Inkijinoff Russia Actor 1973 27 Betty Schade Germany Actress 1982 April 7 Margarete Schön Germany Actress 1985 May 6 Rudolph Valentino Italy Actor 1926 June 24 Jack Dempsey US Boxer, Actor 1983 July 9 Cullen Landis US Actor, Director 1975 13 Sidney Blackmer US Actor 1973 21 Henry Lynn US Director, Screenwriter 1984 25 Ingeborg Spangsfeldt Denmark Actress 1968 26 Gracie Allen UK Actress 1964 August 9 Nat Pendleton US Olympic Wrestler, Actor 1967 16 Lucien Littlefield US Actor 1960 September 11 Uno Henning Sweden Actor 1970 22 Paul Muni Austria Actor 1967 October 4 Buster Keaton US Actor, Director 1966 20 Evelyn Brent US Actress 1975 21 Edna Purviance US Actress 1958 November 14 Louise Huff US Actress 1973 December 3 Tadeusz Olsza Poland Actor 1975 External links PLMHQKcjum-2SyK1e4czlVgZMhCeZNbRA- 1895 in film List of 1895 films at IMDb List of 1895 deaths at IMDb List of 1895 births at IMDb References Category:Film by year