1899 in film
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The following is an overview of the events of 1899 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
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Events
- September
- Shakespeareplay.
- Mitchell and Kenyon of Blackburn in the north of England release three fiction films under the 'Norden' brand which attract national attention – The Tramp's Surprise, The Tramps and the Artist and Kidnapping by Indians, the latter being the first Western.
- November – The oldest surviving Japanese film, Momijigari, is shot by Tsunekichi Shibata in Tokyo as a record of kabuki actors Onoe Kikugorō V and Ichikawa Danjūrō IX performing a scene from the play Momijigari.
- T. C. Hepworth invents Biokam,[1] a 17.5 mm format which also is the first format to have a center perforation.
- John Alfred Prestwich invents a 13 mm amateur format.[2]
Films released in 1899
- Beauty and the Beast, produced for Pathe (French)[3]
- The Biter Bit, produced by Bamforth & Co Ltd
- Cagliostro's Mirror, directed by George Melies
- Cinderella (Cendrillon), directed by Georges Méliès
- Cleopatra, directed by George Melies, later re-released as Cleopatra's Tomb[4]
- Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene, produced by Edison Studios
- The Demon Barber, produced by American Mutoscope
- The Devil in a Convent, directed by Georges Méliès, later re-released as The Sign of the Cross
- docudramasdirected by Georges Méliès
- The Haunted House, directed by Siegmund Lubin
- How Would You Like to Be the Ice Man?
- The Jeffries-Sharkey Fight, a documentary that is in all likelihood lost; running over two hours, this is one of the oldest feature films
- Kidnapping by Indians
- King John
- George Albert Smith; has been cited as cinema's first example of narrative editing
- Major Wilson's Last Stand
- A Midnight Episode, directed by George Melies, aka A Good Bed
- The Miser's Doom (British), directed by Walter R. Booth
- A Mysterious Portrait, directed by Georges Méliès
- Pillar of Fire (aka The Column of Fire), directed by George Melies, adapting a scene from the novel "She" by H. Rider Haggard[5]
- Raising Spirits, directed by George Melies
Births
| Month | Date | Name | Country | Profession | Died | |
| January | 6 | Phyllis Haver | US | Actress | 1960 | |
| 30 | Martita Hunt | UK | Actress | 1969 | ||
| February | 6 | Ramon Novarro | Mexico | Actor | 1968 | |
| 15 | Gale Sondergaard | US | Actress | 1985 | ||
| 21 | Sigrid Holmquist | Sweden | Actress | 1970 | ||
| 22 | George O'Hara | US | Actor, Screenwriter | 1966 | ||
| March | 6 | Jay C. Flippen | US | Actor | 1971 | |
| 14 | Ada Kramm | Norway | Actress | 1981 | ||
| 23 | Dora Gerson | Germany | Actress | 1943 | ||
| 27 | Gloria Swanson | US | Actress | 1983 | ||
| April | 19 | George O'Brien | US | Actor | 1985 | |
| 26 | Guinn "Big Boy" Williams | US | Actor | 1962 | ||
| May | 10 | Fred Astaire | US | Actor, Dancer | 1987 | |
| June | 4 | Lane Chandler | US | Actor | 1972 | |
| 15 | Einar Hanson | Sweden | Actor | 1927 | ||
| 30 | Madge Bellamy | US | Actress | 1990 | ||
| July | 1 | Charles Laughton | UK | Actor | 1962 | |
| 7 | George Cukor | US | Director | 1983 | ||
| 14 | Martha Mansfield | US | Actress | 1923 | ||
| 17 | James Cagney | US | Actor | 1986 | ||
| August | 9 | Paul Kelly | US | Actor | 1956 | |
| 13 | Alfred Hitchcock | UK | Director | 1980 | ||
| 16 | Glenn Strange | US | Actor | 1973 | ||
| 19 | Colleen Moore | US | Actress | 1988 | ||
| 28 | Charles Boyer | France | Actor | 1978 | ||
| September | 1 | Richard Arlen | US | Actor | 1976 | |
| 9 | Neil Hamilton | US | Actor | 1984 | ||
| November | 6 | Francis Lederer | Austria-Hungary | Actor | 2000 | |
| 11 | Pat O'Brien | US | Actor | 1983 | ||
| 17 | Douglas Shearer | Canada | Sound Engineer | 1971 | ||
| 21 | Jobyna Ralston | US | Actress | 1967 | ||
| December | 8 | John Qualen | Canada | Actor | 1987 | |
| 16 | Noël Coward | UK | Actor, Playwright, Composer | 1973 | ||
| 25 | Humphrey Bogart | US | Actor | 1957 |
External links
- 1899 in film playlist on YouTube
- List of 1899 films at IMDb
- List of 1899 deaths at IMDb
- List of 1899 births at IMDb
References
- ISBN 978-0415778565.
- ^ Herbert, Stephen. "John Alfred Prestwich". Who's Who of Victorian Cinema. Retrieved 2013-02-24.
- ISBN 978-0-313-33442-9.
- ISBN 0-7864-0036-6. Page 12.
- ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.