1899 in film

none March 2013 The following is an overview of the events of 1899 in film, including a list of films released and notable births. 1899 film music Events September King John, a silent compilation of three short scenes from a forthcoming stage production by Herbert Beerbohm Tree with film direction by William Kennedy Dickson and Walter Pfeffer Dando, is filmed in London, the first known film based on a Shakespeare play. Mitchell and Kenyon of Blackburn in the north of England release three fiction films under the 'Norden' brand which attract national attention – The Tramp's Surprise, The Tramps and the Artist and Kidnapping by Indians, the latter being the first Western. November – The oldest surviving Japanese film, Momijigari, is shot by Tsunekichi Shibata in Tokyo as a record of kabuki actors Onoe Kikugorō V and Ichikawa Danjūrō IX performing a scene from the play Momijigari. T. C. Hepworth invents Biokam,Abel Richard Encyclopedia of Early Cinema 2010 Routledge London and New York 978-0415778565 26 a 17.5 mm format which also is the first format to have a center perforation. John Alfred Prestwich invents a 13 mm amateur format.Herbert Stephen John Alfred Prestwich http://www.victorian-cinema.net/prestwich Who's Who of Victorian Cinema 2013-02-24 Films released in 1899 Beauty and the Beast, produced for Pathe (French)Haase Donald The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F 2008 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-33442-9 386 https://books.google.com/books?id=Jdx2fhPM1XIC&pg=PA386 en The Biter Bit, produced by Bamforth & Co Ltd Cagliostro's Mirror, directed by George Melies Cinderella (Cendrillon), directed by Georges Méliès Cleopatra, directed by George Melies, later re-released as Cleopatra's TombKinnard, Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. 0-7864-0036-6. Page 12. Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene, produced by Edison Studios The Demon Barber, produced by American Mutoscope The Devil in a Convent, directed by Georges Méliès, later re-released as The Sign of the Cross The Dreyfus Affair, a series of docudramas directed by Georges Méliès The Haunted House, directed by Siegmund Lubin How Would You Like to Be the Ice Man? The Jeffries-Sharkey Fight, a documentary that is in all likelihood lost; running over two hours, this is one of the oldest feature films Kidnapping by Indians King John The Kiss in the Tunnel, directed by George Albert Smith; has been cited as cinema's first example of narrative editing Major Wilson's Last Stand A Midnight Episode, directed by George Melies, aka A Good Bed The Miser's Doom (British), directed by Walter R. Booth A Mysterious Portrait, directed by Georges Méliès The Pillar of Fire (aka The Column of Fire), directed by George Melies, adapting a scene from the novel "She" by H. Rider HaggardWorkman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. 978-1936168-68-2. Raising Spirits, directed by George Melies Births Month Date Name Country Profession Died January 6 Phyllis Haver US Actress 1960 24 Beulah Ashley US Actress, Screenwriter, script Supervisor 1965 Obituaries: Beulah Ashley July 14, 1965 Variety 63 Beulah Ashley, pioneer screen actress who in later years was a script supervisor at a majority of studios, died after a lengthy illness in Hollywood, July 6. Actor Joe Ashley[sic], a son, survives. 1014826554"Funeral Slated Monday for Beulah Ashley". Hollywood Citizen-News. July 10, 1965. p. 3. "Funeral services for Beulah Maria Ashley, 66, who died July 6 [...] Born in Meridian, Miss., Mrs. Ashley lived at 5416 La Mirada Ave., Hollywood. She had been a script clerk with Republic Motion Picture Co. for many years. She leaves son, Joel of Hollywood; sisters, Mrs. Inie Hatcher, Mrs. Julia Soresi, Mrs. Louise Lloyd of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Ruth Gerster of Los Angeles."Vazzana, Eugene Michael (1995). Silent Film Necrology: Births and Deaths of Over 9000 Performers, Directors, Producers, and Other Filmmakers of the Silent Era, Through 1993. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland & Company. p. 11. 9780786401321. 30 Martita Hunt UK Actress 1969 February 6 Ramon Novarro Mexico Actor 1968 15 Gale Sondergaard US Actress 1985 21 Sigrid Holmquist Sweden Actress 1970 22 George O'Hara US Actor, Screenwriter 1966 March 6 Jay C. Flippen US Actor 1971 14 Ada Kramm Norway Actress 1981 23 Dora Gerson Germany Actress 1943 27 Gloria Swanson US Actress 1983 April 19 George O'Brien US Actor 1985 26 Guinn "Big Boy" Williams US Actor 1962 May 10 Fred Astaire US Actor, Dancer 1987 June 4 Lane Chandler US Actor 1972 15 Einar Hanson Sweden Actor 1927 30 Madge Bellamy US Actress 1990 July 1 Charles Laughton UK Actor 1962 7 George Cukor US Director 1983 14 Martha Mansfield US Actress 1923 17 James Cagney US Actor 1986 August 9 Paul Kelly US Actor 1956 13 Alfred Hitchcock UK Director 1980 16 Glenn Strange US Actor 1973 19 Colleen Moore US Actress 1988 28 Charles Boyer France Actor 1978 September 1 Richard Arlen US Actor 1976 9 Neil Hamilton US Actor 1984 November 6 Francis Lederer Austria-Hungary Actor 2000 11 Pat O'Brien US Actor 1983 17 Douglas Shearer Canada Sound Engineer 1971 21 Jobyna Ralston US Actress 1967 December 8 John Qualen Canada Actor 1987 16 Noël Coward UK Actor, Playwright, Composer 1973 25 Humphrey Bogart US Actor 1957 External links PLMHQKcjum-2TJP5NdNVTp_HgEpmw2-80m 1899 in film List of 1899 films at IMDb List of 1899 deaths at IMDb List of 1899 births at IMDb References Category:Film by year