1897 in film

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Years in film:	1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years:	1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900

[edit] Events

• 125 people died during a film screening at the Charity Bazaar in Paris after a curtain catches on fire from the ether used to fuel the projector lamp.
• Mitchell and Kenyon go into a film-making partnership
• Enoch Rector develops a 63 mm film format called Veriscope, which films the Corbett-Fitzsimmons championship match.
• Thomas Henry Blair develops a 48 mm film format called Viventoscope.

[edit] Films released in 1897

List of 1897 films

• An Arab Knife Grinder at Work
• Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight

[edit] Births

• February 10 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress (d.1992)
• February 12 - Vola Vale, American actress (d. 1970)
• March 16 - Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970)
• March 27 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
• April 1 - Nita Naldi, American actress (d. 1961)
• April 14 - Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
• June 16 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
• June 19 - Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
• October 28 - Edith Head, American costume designer
• October 30 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
• September 23 - Walter Pidgeon, American actor (d. 1984)