1880s in film

Years in film
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1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
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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 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

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

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.

Births

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

• 1885 born actors and filmmakers
• 1886 born actors and filmmakers
• 1887 born actors and filmmakers
• 1888 born actors and filmmakers
• 1889 born actors and filmmakers

1880:

• January 6, 1880 – Tom Mix, American actor (died 1940)
• January 29, 1880 – W. C. Fields, American actor (died 1946)
• February 8, 1880 – Viktor Schwanneke, German actor (died 1931)
• March 10, 1880 – Bronco Billy Anderson, American actor (died 1971)
• April 13, 1880 – Charles Christie, Canadian-born American film studio owner (died 1955)
• June 7, 1880 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (died 1956)
• August 6, 1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor (died 1964)
• October 23, 1880 – Una O'Connor, Irish actress (died 1959)
• December 10, 1880 – Fred Immler, German actor (died 1965)

1881:

• February 10, 1881 – Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress, director, screenwriter (died 1954)
• March 4, 1881 – Maude Fealy American actress (died 1971)
• November 24, 1881 – Al Christie, Canadian-born American director and producer (died 1951)
• November 13, 1881 – Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor (died 1942)
• December 5, 1881 – René Cresté, French actor and director (died 1922)

1882:

• January 17, 1882 – Noah Beery, American actor (died 1946)
• February 15, 1882 – John Barrymore, American actor (died 1942)
• July 27, 1882 – Donald Crisp, American actor (died 1974)
• August 6, 1882 – Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor (died 1971)
• October 20, 1882 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born American actor (died 1956)

1883:

• January 10, 1883 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor (died 1966)
• February 22, 1883 – Marguerite Clark, American actress (died 1940)
• February 22, 1883 – Olga Svendsen, Danish actress (died 1942)
  • April 1, 1883 – Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (died 1930)
  • Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and theatre director (died 1976)
• May 1, 1883 – Tom Moore, Irish-born American actor (died 1955)
• May 23, 1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (died 1939)
• August 19, 1883 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (died 1961)
• October 5, 1883 – Ernst Pittschau, German actor (died 1951)
• December 16, 1883 – Max Linder, French actor (died 1925)

1884:

• January 13, 1884 – Sophie Tucker, American singer, actress and comedian (died 1966)
• February 14, 1884 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor, film director (died 1947)
• February 16, 1884 – Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (died 1951)
• April 6, 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born American actor (died 1950)
• April 30, 1884 – Olof Sandborg, Swedish actor (died 1965)
• May 8, 1884 – Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor (died 1917)
• May 10, 1884 – Olga Petrova, English-born American actress (died 1977)
• July 23, 1884 – Emil Jannings, German actor (died 1950)
• July 24, 1884 – Maria Caserini, Italian actress (d. 1969)
• August 7, 1884 – Billie Burke, American actress (died 1970)
• August 11, 1884 – Hermann Wlach, Austrian actor (died 1962)
• October 4, 1884 – Ida Wüst, German actress (died 1958)
• October 24, 1884 – Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (died 1944)

Lists of films

See also

• Film, History of film, Lists of films