1880s in film

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The decade of the 1880s in film involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Events
2 Films
3 Births
4 See also

Events

1880 - American George Eastman begins to commercially manufacture dry plates for photography.
1880 - Eadweard Muybridge holds a public demonstration of his Zoopraxiscope, a magic lantern provided with a rotating disc with artist's renderings of Muybridge's chronophotographic sequences. It was used as a demonstration device by Muybridge in his illustrated lecture (the original preserved in the Museum of Kingston upon Thames in England).

January 1, 1881 - American inventor George Eastman founds the Eastman Dry Plate Company.
1882 - American inventor George Eastman begins experimenting with new types of photographic film, with his employee, William Walker
1882 - French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey invents the chronophotographic gun, a camera shaped like a rifle that photographs twelve successive images each second.

1885 - American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use.
1887 - Hannibal Goodwin files for a patent for his photographic film.

1888 - George Eastman files for a patent for his photographic film.
1888 - Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge to discuss adding sound to moving pictures. Edison begins his own experiments.
1888 - Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince creates the first motion picture films created on paper rolls of film.
1889 - American inventor George Eastman's celluloid base roll photographic film becomes commercially available.

Films

This is an incomplete list of films made in the 1880s:

Roundhay Garden Scene (Louis le Prince 1888).
Leeds Bridge (Louis le Prince 1888).
Accordion Player (Louis le Prince, probably 1888).
Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses (William Friese-Greene 1889).

Births

This a list of actors and filmmakers who were born between years 1880 and 1884. See also:

1880:

January 6, 1880, Tom Mix, (actor) (d. 1940)
January 29, 1880, W.C. Fields, (actor) (d. 1946)
March 10, 1880, Bronco Billy Anderson, (actor) (d. 1971)
April 13, 1880, Charles Christie, (film studio owner) (d. 1955)
June 7, 1880, Thorleif Lund, (actor) (d. 1956)
August 6, 1880, Hans Moser, (actor), (d. 1964)
October 23, 1880, Una O'Connor, (actress) (d. 1959)
December 10, 1880, Fred Immler, (actor), (d. 1965)

1881:

March 4, 1881, Maude Fealy, (actress) (d. 1971)
November 24, 1881, Al Christie, (director and producer) (d. 1951)
December 5, 1881, René Cresté, actor, director (d. 1922)

1882:

January 17, 1882, Noah Beery, (actor) (d. 1946)
February 15, 1882, John Barrymore, (actor) (d. 1942)
August 6, 1882, Ernst Eklund, (actor) (d. 1971)
October 20, 1882, Bela Lugosi, (actor) (d. 1956)

1883:

January 10, 1883, Francis X. Bushman, (actor) (d. 1966)
February 22, 1883, Marguerite Clark, (actress) (d. 1940)
February 23, 1883, Victor Fleming, (director) (d. 1949)
April 1, 1883, Lon Chaney, Sr., (actor) (d. 1930)
May 1, 1883, Tom Moore, (actor) (d. 1955)
May 23, 1883, Douglas Fairbanks, (actor) (d. 1939)
August 19, 1883, Elsie Ferguson, (actress) (d. 1961)
December 16, 1883, Max Linder, (actor) (d. 1925)

1884:

January 13, 1884, Sophie Tucker, (singer, actress and comedian) (d. 1966)
February 14, 1884 - Nils Olaf Chrisander, (actor, film director) (d. 1947)
February 16, 1884, Robert J. Flaherty (filmmaker) (d. 1951)
April 6, 1884, Walter Huston, (actor) (d. 1950)
May 10, 1884, Olga Petrova, (actress) (d. 1977)
August 7, 1884, Billie Burke, (actress) (d. 1970)
October 4, 1884, Ida Wüst, (actress) (d. 1958)

See also

Film, History of cinema, List of movies.
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1890s	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899

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1910s	1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919

1920s	1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

1930s	1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

1940s	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949

1950s	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

1960s	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010s	2010 2011 2012 2013 and beyond