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1890 in film

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1890 in film

The following is an overview of the events of 1890 in film, including a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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Events

  • The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 and the process was patented in 1890.
  • William Kennedy Dickson completes his work for Thomas Edison on the Kinetograph cylinder either in this year or 1889. Monkeyshines No. 1 becomes the first film shot on the system.

    • Films

  • London's Trafalgar Square, directed by William Carr Croft and Wordsworth Donisthorpe.
  • Monkeyshines, No. 1 - contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890, Monkeyshines, No. 2 and Monkeyshines, No. 3, directed by William K. L. Dickson.
  • Mosquinha, directed by Étienne-Jules Marey.
  • Traffic in King's Road, Chelsea, directed by William Friese-Greene.

    • Births

  • January 10 - Pina Menichelli, Italian actress
  • January 30 - Bruno Kastner, German actor
  • February 18 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor
  • February 24 - Marjorie Main, American actress
  • May 23 - Herbert Marshall, British actor
  • June 10 - William A. Seiter, American film director
  • June 14 - May Allison, American actress
  • June 16 - Stan Laurel, British actor
  • June 18 - Gideon Wahlberg, Swedish actor, screenwriter and film director
  • August 2 - Marin Sais, American actress
  • August 27 - Man Ray, American photographer and director
  • September 4
  • Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director
  • Naima Wifstrand, Swedish singer, actress, composer and director
  • October 1 - Stanley Holloway, British actor
  • October 2 - Groucho Marx, American comedian, actor

    • Deaths

  • September 16 - Louis Le Prince, French film pioneer, director of Roundhay Garden Scene (born 1842)

    • References

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