1894 in film
This is a list of films that were made in 1894.
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Events
- January 7
- William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- Thomas Edison films his assistant, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetoscope at the "Black Maria."[1]
- April 14 - The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City.[2]
- June 6 - Charles Francis Jenkins projects a filmed motion picture before an audience in Richmond, Indiana. Earliest documented projection of a motion picture.[3]
- Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph.[4]
- Kinetoscope viewing parlors begin to open in major cities. Each parlor contains several machines.
- Birt Acres creates a 70 mm format, which he first uses to shoot the Henley Royal Regatta.[5]
Films released in 1894
- Annie Oakley
- Annabelle Butterfly Dance, directed by William K. L. Dickson, starring Annabelle Moore
- Autour d'une cabine, directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud
- Athlete with Wand
- Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
- Bucking Broncho, directed by William K. L. Dickson
- Buffalo Dance, directed by William K. L. Dickson
- Caicedo (with Pole)
- Carmencita, directed by William K. L. Dickson
- Chinese Laundry Scene (Robetta and Doretto, No. 2)
- Chinese Opium Den
- Cock Fight, No. 2
- Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph, directed by William K. L. Dickson, starring James J. Corbett
- Falling Cat, directed by Étienne-Jules Marey
- Fire Rescue Scene
- Fred Ott's Sneeze (Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze)
- Fred Ott Holding a Bird
- Glenroy Bros
- Hadj Cheriff
- The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
- Imperial Japanese Dance
- Leonard-Cushing Fight
- Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
- Miss Jerry
- Rêve au coin du feu, directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud
- (Sandow No. 1) Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
- Sandow No. 2
- Sandow No. 3
- Sioux Ghost Dance
Births
| Day | Name | Profession | Year of death |
| January 3 | ZaSu Pitts | American actress | 1963 |
| February 8 | King Vidor | American actor and director | 1982 |
| February 14 | Jack Benny | American comedian | 1974 |
| May 26 | Norma Talmadge | American actress | 1957 |
| June 16 | Norman Kerry | American actor | 1956 |
| July 25 | Walter Brennan | 1974 | |
| July 27 | Mientje Kling | Dutch actress | 1966 |
| September 15 | Jean Renoir | French director | 1979 |
| September 27 | Olive Tell | American actress | 1951 |
| October 7 | Del Lord | Canadian pioneer Hollywood director | 1970 |
| October 20 | Olive Thomas | American actress | 1920 |
| November 9 | Mae Marsh | 1968 | |
| November 13 | Nita Naldi | 1961 | |
| December 8 | Marthe Vinot | French actress | 1974 |
External links
Media related to 1894 in film at Wikimedia Commons
- 1894 at the Internet Movie Database
References
- ↑ "A Sneeze Caught on Film". American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ↑ Musser, Charles (1994). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907, Volume 1. London, England: University of California Press. p. 81. ISBN 0521897335.
- ↑ "The Case Files: C. Franklin Jenkins". The Franklin Institute. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ↑ Venkatasawmy, Rama (2012). The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. p. 166. ISBN 0739176218.
- ↑ "Acres, Birt (1854-1918)". BFI Screen Online. Retrieved 24 February 2013.