1900 in film

none March 2019 1900 film music The year 1900 in film involved some significant events. Events Reulos, Goudeau & Co. invent Mirographe, a 21 mm amateur format. The Lumière Brothers premiere their new Lumiere Wide format for the 1900 World Fair. At 75 mm wide, it has held the record for over 100 years as the widest format yet developed. Raoul Grimoin-Sanson also creates a sensation at the 1900 World Fair with his multi-projector Cinéorama spectacle, which uses ten 70 mm projectors to create a simulated 360-degree balloon ride over Paris. The exhibit is closed before it formally opens, however, due to legitimate health and safety concerns regarding the heat of the combined projectors, and releases the format as La Petite. Gaumont-Demeny release their own 15 mm amateur format, Pocket Chrono. Release of the first film version of Hamlet, an adaptation of the duel scene, with French actress Sarah Bernhardt playing the title role and accompanying recorded sound. Making of the first film to feature the detective character Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Baffled, by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Jeanne d'Arc becomes the first film of considerable length (10 minutes) to be shown entirely in colour. William N. Selig makes The Chicago Stockyards—From Hoof to Market for Chicago-based Philip Danforth Armour, a prominent businessman in the meatpacking industry, showing the full meatpacking process from cattle being unloaded at the stockyards to canning. Studio lights do not exist, so stage spotlights are borrowed from the Richard Mansfield Theatrical Company to film inside the slaughterhouse.Erish Andrew A. Col. William N. Selig: The Man Who Invented Hollywood 2012 University of Texas Press 0292728700 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=QivgDAAAQBAJ 8 August 2019 Notable films # 20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – (UK) A Army Life; or, How Soldiers Are Made: Mounted Infantry (lost), a documentary directed by Robert W. Paul – (UK) As Seen Through a Telescope, directed by George Albert Smith – (UK) Attack on a China Mission, directed by James Williamson – (UK) Automobile Parade, directed by William C. Paley – (US) B Battle of Mafeking, directed by James H. White – (US) The Beggar's Deceit, directed by Cecil Hepworth – (UK) C Chinese Magic (aka Yellow Peril), directed by Walter R. Booth – (UK) The Clown and the Alchemist, directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. SmithKinnard, Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. 0-7864-0036-6. Page 13. – (US) D Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage), directed by Alice Guy – (France) Davy Jones' Locker, directed by Frederick S. Armitage – (US) E thumb|215px|The Enchanted Drawing The Enchanted Drawing, directed by J. Stuart Blackton – (US) Explosion of a Motor Car, directed by Cecil Hepworth – (UK) F A Fantastical Meal (Le Repas fantastique), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) Faust and Marguerite, directed by Edwin S. Porter, based on the 1859 opera by Charles Gounod – (US) G Going to Bed Under Difficulties (Le Déshabillage impossible), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) Grandma's Reading Glass, directed by George Albert Smith – (UK) H How He Missed His Train (Le Réveil d'un monsieur pressé), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) How It Feels to Be Run Over, directed by Cecil Hepworth – (UK) J thumb|215px|Joan burning at the stake at the climax of Joan of Arc A Jersey Skeeter, directed by Arthur Marvin – (US) Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) K The Kiss, directed by Edwin S. Porter – (US) L Ladies' Skirt Nailed to a Fence, produced by Bamforth & Co Ltd – (UK) Let Me Dream Again, directed by George Albert Smith – (UK) M Messrs Lumb And Co., Leaving the Works, Huddersfield, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – (UK) Eine moderne Jungfrau von Orléans, directed by Max Skladanowsky – (Germany) The Mystic Swing, directed by Edwin S. Porter – (US) O The One-Man Band (L'Homme-Orchestre), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) R Reproduction of the McGovern and Dixon Fight, starring Terry McGovern and George Dixon – (US) Rough Sea, produced by Bamforth & Co Ltd. – (UK) S thumb|215px|Sherlock Holmes Baffled Sherlock Holmes Baffled, directed by Arthur Marvin – (US) Soldiers of the Cross (lost), directed by Joseph Perry – (Australia) Solser en Hesse (lost), directed by M.H. Laddé – (Netherlands) T The Two Blind Men (Les Deux Aveugles) (lost), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) U Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel, directed by Edwin S. Porter – (US) Uncle Josh's Nightmare, directed by Edwin S. Porter – (US) V Le village de Namo – Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs, directed by Gabriel Veyre – (France) Births Month Date Name Country Profession Died January 10 Jean Gehret Switzerland Actor, director 1956 20 Colin Clive UK Actor 1937 February 13 Barbara von Annenkoff Germany Actress 1979 16 Vincent Coleman US Actor 1971 16 Albert Hackett US Actor, screenwriter 1995 17 Ruth Clifford US Actress 1998 21 Jeanne Aubert France Singer, actress 1988 22 Luis Buñuel Spain Screenwriter, director 1983 26 Jean Negulesco Romania Screenwriter, director 1993 March 3 Edna Best UK Actress 1974Edna Best http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f659002 https://web.archive.org/web/20171111224344/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f659002 dead November 11, 2017 BFI 25 March 2019 en April 5 Spencer Tracy US Actor 1967Spencer Tracy Biography, Movies, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Spencer-Tracy Encyclopedia Britannica 25 March 2019 en 9 Paul Willis US Actor 1960"Juvenile Type That Pleases". The Movie Magazine. 1915. December 1915. Vol. 2, No. 3. p. 106. Retrieved October 30, 2024."Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQB9-TSZ : Thu May 09 21:13:47 UTC 2024), Entry for Spencer Paul Gregory and Spencer Orville Gregory. 30 David Manners Canada Actor 1998 May 9 Maria Malicka Poland Actress 1992 16 Aage Winther-Jørgensen Denmark Actor 1967 July 10 Evelyn Laye UK Actress 1996 27 Charles Vidor Hungary Director 1959 August 8 Alexis Minotis Greece Actor and director 1990 8 Robert Siodmak Germany Director 1976 9 Charles Farrell US Actor 1990 11 Monroe Owsley US Actor 1937 23 Eve Southern US Actress 1972 24 Preston Foster US Actor, singer 1970 September 19 Ricardo Cortez US Actor, director 1977 October 9 Alastair Sim Scotland Actor 1976 10 Helen Hayes US Actress 1993 15 Fritz Feld Germany Actor 1993 15 Mervyn LeRoy US Director, producer, screenwriter 1987 17 Jean Arthur US Actress 1991 November 5 Natalie Schafer US Actress 1991 December 6 Agnes Moorehead US Actress 1974 17 Katina Paxinou Greece Actress 1973 Date unknown Juanita Angeles, Filipina pre-war and silent film actress Deaths November 22 – Arthur Sullivan, producer of musicals, half of the team of Gilbert and Sullivan (born 1842)Sir Arthur Sullivan https://www.eno.org/composers/sir-arthur-sullivan/ English National Opera 25 March 2019 November 30 – Oscar Wilde, playwright whose works were made into films (born 1854) December 31 – Hannibal Goodwin, retired minister, in 1886 invented nitrate film roll. (born 1822) Debut Sarah Bernhardt Benoit Constant Coquelin References External links List of 1900 films at IMDb List of 1900 deaths at IMDb List of 1900 births at IMDb Category:Film by year Category:Articles containing video clips