1894 in film

The following is an overview of the events of 1894 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.

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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
Band Drill
Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's), directed by William K. L. Dickson. May be the first comedy film ever made.
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, directed by William K. L. Dickson. One of the earliest comedy films ever made.
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

January 3 - ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
February 8 - King Vidor, American actor and director (d. 1982)
February 14 - Jack Benny, American comedian (d. 1974)
May 20 - Estelle Taylor, American actress (d. 1958)
May 26 - Norma Talmadge, American actress (d. 1957)
June 16 - Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
July 25 - Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
July 27 - Mientje Kling, Dutch actress (d. 1966)
September 15 - Jean Renoir, French director (d. 1979)
September 27 - Olive Tell, American actress (d. 1951)
October 7 - Del Lord, Canadian pioneer Hollywood director (d. 1970)
October 20 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
October 27 - Agda Helin, Swedish actress (d. 1984)
November 9 - Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
November 13 - Nita Naldi, American actress (d. 1961)
December 8 - Marthe Vinot, French actress (d. 1974)

Debut

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.

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