1880s in film

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.

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

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)
November 2, 1880 – Fritz Achterberg, German actor (died 1971)
December 10, 1880 – Fred Immler, German actor (died 1965)

1881:

January 24, 1881 – Elsa Wagner, German actress (died 1975)
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)
February 27, 1882 – George Terwilliger, American director and screenwriter (died 1970)
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 6, 1883 – Alberto Collo, Italian 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)
December 24, 1883 – Stefan Jaracz, Polish actor (died 1945)

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 12, 1884 – Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer (d. 1957)
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)
December 1, 1884 – Torben Meyer, Danish actor (died 1975)
December 31, 1884 – Mihály Fekete Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director (died 1960)