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Overview of the events of 1896 in film
The following is an overview of the events of 1896 in film , including a list of films released and notable births.
Overview of the events of 1896 in film
Events
Ad for Vitascope Hall, New Orleans , offering "an entirely new series of pictures".
January – In the United States , the Vitascope film projector is designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat . Armat begins working with Thomas Edison to manufacture it.
January 14 – Birt Acres demonstrates his film projector, the Kineopticon , the first in Britain, to the Royal Photographic Society at the Queen's Hall in London. This is the first film show to an audience in the U.K.[1]
February 20 – In London:[2]
April – Edison and Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City.
May 14 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is crowned in Moscow, the first
coronation ever recorded in film.
July 11 – First films screened in Venezuela by Luis Manuel Méndez and Manuel Trujillo Durán at the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo .[3]
July 26 – "Vitascope Hall" opens on Canal Street, New Orleans , the first business devoted exclusively to showing motion pictures at a fixed location [1]
September 28 – The Pathé Frères
film company is founded.
October 19 – "Edisonia Hall " in Buffalo, New York , the first building constructed specifically for showing motion pictures. [2]
November 3 - Marius Sestier films the Melbourne Cup , a major sporting event in Australia.
In France, magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing early special effect techniques, including stop motion . Films that year included The Devil's Castle , A Nightmare , A Terrible Night .[4]
William Selig founds the Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago .
Demeny-Gaumont work on a 60 mm format, first known as Biographe (unperforated), then Chronophotographe (perforated).
Casimir Sivan and E. Dalphin create a 38 mm format.
Notable films released in 1896
Alexandre Promio
The pioneer filmmaker, Alice Guy, debuted this year.
Alice Guy-Blaché
The Cabbage Fairy
Le chapeau de Tabarin
Le clubmen
Les concierges
Les démolisseurs
Chez le barbier
Birt Acres
Maybe a surviving print of the film Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station .
Screenshot of A Nightmare .
Gabriel Veyre
.
Un duelo a pistola en el bosque de Chapultepec (Duel au pistolet ).
Georges Méliès
Louis Lumière
Contrary to myth, Arrival Of A Train At La Ciotat it was not shown at the Lumières' first public film screening on 28 December 1895 in Paris, France: the programme of ten films shown that day makes no mention of it. Its first public showing took place in January 1896.
M.H. Laddé
Robert W. Paul
William Heise
The first kiss ever on film is in 1896 involving the great Canadian star May Irwin and John C. Rice .
William K.L. Dickson
.
A watermelon feast , directed by William Kennedy Dickson.
Others
"Léar".
.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
.
A Morning Alarm , produced by Edison Studios .
.
Up the River , directed by Unknown.
Births
Lilyan Tashman was an American vaudeville , Broadway , and film actress.
Debut
Alice Guy
as a director in Les démolisseurs
May Irwin as an actress in The Kiss (1 April)
John C. Rice as an actor in The Kiss (1 April)
Cissy Fitzgerald as an actress in 50 feet of actuality film of Fitzgerald by Edison; presumably elements from the 1894 play The Gaiety Girl
Robert B. Mantell as an actor in Select Scenes from 'Monbars'
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