1890 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Films 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Marriages

[edit] Events

• William 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.

[edit] Films

• Monkeyshines, No. 1 - contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890
• Monkeyshines, No. 2
• Monkeyshines, No. 3

[edit] Births

• January 4 - Weyler Hildebrand, Swedish actor, director and writer
• January 6 - Tor Weijden, Swedish actor
• June 14 - May Allison, American actress
• August 2 - Marin Sais, American actress
• August 27 - Man Ray, American photographer and director
• September 4 - Naima Wifstrand, Swedish singer, actress, composer and director
• October 1 - Stanley Holloway, British actor
• October 2 - Groucho Marx, American comedian, actor
• October 12 - Carl Hagman, Swedish singer and actor
• December 25 - Hugo Bolander, Swedish producer, director, actor and writer

[edit] Deaths

• September 16 - Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, French film pioneer, director of Roundhay Garden Scene (b.1842)

[edit] Marriages

• January 23 - John Bunny and Clara Scallan