1894 in film
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[edit] Events
- January 7 - William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- January 7 - Thomas Edison films his assistant, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetoscope at the "Black Maria."
- February 13 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
- April 14 - The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City.
- Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph.
- 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.
[edit] Films released in 1894
- Annie Oakley
- Annabelle Butterfly Dance
- Athlete with Wand
- Band Drill
- Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
- Bucking Broncho
- Buffalo Dance
- Caicedo with Pole
- Carmencita
- Chinese Opium Den
- Cockfight, no. 2
- Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
- Fire Rescue Scene
- Fred Ott's Sneeze (Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze)
- Fred Ott Holding a Bird
- Glenroy Bros., (no. 2)
- Hadj Cheriff
- The Henley Royal Regatta of 1894
- Impereal Japanese Dance
- Louis Martinetti aka Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
- Miss Jerry
- Robetta and Doretto, (no. 2) aka Chinese Laundry Scene
- Sandow
- Sioux Ghost Dance
[edit] Births
- January 3 - Zazu Pitts, actress (d. 1963)
- June 16 - Norman Kerry, actor (d. 1956)
- September 15 - Jean Renoir, director (d.1979)
- September 27 - Olive Tell, actress (d. 1951)
- October 7 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director (d. 1970)
- October 20 - Olive Thomas, actress (d. 1920)
- December 31 - Pola Negri, actress (d. 1987)
[edit] External links
- 1894 at the Internet Movie Database
